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Professor Daniel Robinson

Professor Daniel Robinson

Professor

BSc Hons, G.Dip Env Law, PhD

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

Dr Daniel Robinson has a background in human geography, environmental science and environmental law. Daniel's research focuses on the regulation of nature and knowledge. His papers and books cover themes including 'biopiracy', access and benefit-sharing relating to biological resources, appropriation and regulation of Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous/customary laws and biocultural protocols, ethical biotrade, political ecology, environmental policy and management. Daniel also has an interest in the environmental and social implications of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade rules and negotiations, and has several papers/chapters on the negotiation politics of these forums.

On these issues, Daniel has acted as a researcher and policy advisor on projects for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and with their joint project with UNCTAD, The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF), the German development implementation agency (GIZ), AusAid and Department of Environment, Natural Justice, the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT), The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, amongst others. He was a Research Fellow, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva (2014 - 2018); and a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in NYC (October 2018).

Daniel is the Academic Co-Lead for the Pacific, for the UNSW Institute for Global Development, a university-wide strategic initiative. See:

Daniel is currently serving on the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, 2024-2026.

Daniel is Chief Investigator with Dr Margaret Raven on the 5 year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project(DP180100507): Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018-2022, extended to 2025).

Daniel was recently the Pacific Regional Manager of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Capacity Development Initiative, which had a 5 year project implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the Pacific from 2017 to 2022. See:

Additional extensive media relating to Kakadu Plum and bush foods and medicines, for example on ԲپDzԲ,, as well as , SBS Radio World News, , Print media such as ,le monde diplomatique. Check out this 2022 interview on YouTube by. See also 2022 contributions to British Council funded contributions to a .
Phone
93859809
E-mail
d.robinson@unsw.edu.au
Location
360 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2020
    O’Donnell T; Robinson DF; Gillespie J, 2020, Legal Geography: Perspectives and Methods, O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J, (eds.), Routledge, Oxon,
    Books | 2020
    Robinson DF, 2020, The Moroccan Argan Trade. Producer Networks and Human Bio-Geographies, Routledge, London,
    Books | 2020
    Robinson DF, 2020, The Moroccan argan trade: Producer networks and human bio-geographies,
    Books | 2017
    Robinson DF; Abdel-Latif A; Roffe P, 2017, Protecting Traditional Knowledge. The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Robinson DF; Abdel-Latif A; Roffe P, (eds.), Routledge, London; New York,
    Books | 2014
    Robinson D, 2014, Biodiversity, Access and Benefit-Sharing: Global Case Studies, Routledge, Oxon, UK,
    Books | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, Confronting Biopiracy: Challenges, Cases and International Debates, Earthscan, London,
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Robinson D; Hickey F, 2024, 'Digitalising Traditions: Custom, Land, Biodiversity and Resource Management in Vanuatu', in Stremlau N; Voyvodic Casabo C (ed.), Technology and Governance Beyond the State The Rule of Non-Law, Routledge, London,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Robinson D; McDuie-Ra D, 2024, 'The Legal Geographies of Thailand’s Technology Markets', in Stremlau N; Voyvodic Casabo C (ed.), Technology and Governance Beyond the State: The Rule of Non-Law, Routledge, London,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Robinson D; Raven M; Lumsden S, 2024, 'Epistemic injustice: intellectual property, biodiversity and traditional knowledge', in Rimmer M; Ncube C; Amani B (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Raven M; Robinson D, 2022, 'BIOCULTURAL RIGHTS AND PROTOCOLS IN THE PACIFIC', in Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment, pp. 204 - 220,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Raven M; Robinson D, 2022, 'Biocultural Rights and Protocols in the Pacific', in Girard F; Hall I; Frison C (ed.), Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Protecting Culture and the Environment, Routledge, London, pp. 203 - 220,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Robinson D; Raven M, 2022, 'Access and Benefit Sharing and Biocultural Protocols in the Pacific', in Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge, pp. 191 - 208,
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Robinson D; Raven M, 2022, 'Access and Benefit Sharing and Biocultural Protocols in the Pacific', in Lawson C; Rourke M; Humphries F (ed.), Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge, Taylor & Francis, Oxon, pp. 191 - 208,
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Robinson D; Drozdzewski D; Kaewmahanin Enright J, 2021, 'Land territorialisation, contestation and informal place-laws of Indigenous peoples in Phuket and Phang Nga, Thailand', in Bartel R; Carter J (ed.), Handbook on Space, Place and Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 156 - 169,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J, 2020, 'An Australasian and Asia-Pacific approach to legal geography', in O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J (ed.), Legal Geography. Perspectives and Methods, Routledge, London, pp. 3 - 19,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J, 2020, 'Legal geography futures', in O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J (ed.), Legal Geography. Perspectives and Methods, Routledge, London, pp. 301 - 307,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Robinson D; Raven M; Kalfatak D; Tari T; Tualima H-Y; Hickey F, 2020, 'Patent landscaping for Vanuatu: specific legal geographic methods for Indigenous knowledge protection and promotion', in O'Donnell T; Robinson D; Gillespie J (ed.), Legal Geography: Perspectives and Methods, Routledge, London, pp. 74 - 90,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Bargh M; Wagner EV, 2019, 'Consulting the consultators', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 91 - 107,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Bartel R, 2019, 'The other is us', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 167 - 184,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Calyx C; Jessup B; Sihombing M; Robinson D, 2019, 'Asserting land rights through technology and democratic expression', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 37 - 57,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Calyx C; Jessup B; Sihombing M, 2019, 'Asserting land rights through technology and democratic expression', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 37 - 57,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Gillespie J, 2019, 'Challenges in legal geography research methodologies in cross-cultural settings', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 19 - 36,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Godden L, 2019, 'Legal geography – place, time, law and method', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 130 - 148,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Graham N, 2019, 'Sydney’s drinking water catchment', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 201 - 220,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    McFarland P, 2019, 'Ask an “expert”', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 185 - 198,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    O’Donnell T; Robinson DF; Gillespie J, 2019, 'An Australasian and Asia-Pacific approach to legal geography', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 3 - 15,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    O’Donnell T; Robinson DF; Gillespie J, 2019, 'An Australasian and Asia-Pacific approach to legal geography', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 3 - 16,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    O’Donnell T, 2019, 'Inside-outside', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 113 - 129,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Rickards L; Jolley C, 2019, 'Exploring the production of climate change through the nomosphere of the fossil fuel regime', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 258 - 279,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Rickards L; Jolley C, 2019, 'Exploring the production of climate change through the nomosphere of the fossil fuel regime', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 258 - 280,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Robinson D; Von Braun J, 2019, 'New Challenges for the Nagoya Protocol: Diverging Implementation Regimes for Access and Benefit-Sharing', in Correa C; Sueba X (ed.), Intellectual Property and Development: Understanding the Interfaces Liber amicorum Pedro Roffe, Springer, Singapore, pp. 377 - 404
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Robinson DF; Raven M; Kalfatak D; Tari T; Tualima H-Y; Hickey F, 2019, 'Patent landscaping for Vanuatu', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 74 - 90,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Schenk C, 2019, 'Islam, legal geography and methodological challenges in Indonesia', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 58 - 70,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Sherval M, 2019, 'Energising the law', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 240 - 257,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Spencer L, 2019, 'Comparative legal geography', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 149 - 166,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Spencer L, 2019, 'Comparative legal geography', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 149 - 166,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Williams S, 2019, 'Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users', in Legal Geography, Routledge, pp. 283 - 300,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Robinson D; Raven M; Hunter J, 2018, 'The limits of ABS laws. Why Gumby Gumby and other bush foods and medicines need specific indigenous knowledge protections', in Lawson C; Adhikari K (ed.), Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing, Routledge, New York, pp. 185 - 207,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Robinson D, 2018, 'Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? A critical reflection on the WIPO IGC', in McManis C; Ong B (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Biodiversity and the Law, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 350 - 358,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    McDuie-Ra DA; Robinson D, 2017, 'Pirate places in Bangkok: IPRs, vendors and urban order', in Fredriksson M; Arvanitakis J (ed.), Property, Place and Piracy, Routledge, London, pp. 202 - 217,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Robinson D; Chiarolla C, 2017, 'The Role of Databases, Contracts and Codes of Conduct', in Robinson DF; Roffe P; Abdel-Latif A (ed.), Protecting Traditional Knowledge The Wipo Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Routledge Research in International Environmental Law, Oxon, pp. 108 - 121,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Robinson D; Roffe P; Abdel-Latif A, 2017, 'Introduction: Mapping the Evolution, State-of-play and Future of the WIPO IGC', in Robinson DF; Abdel-Latif A; Roffe P (ed.), Protecting Traditional Knowledge The Wipo Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Routledge Research in International Environmental Law, Oxon, pp. 3 - 9,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Robinson D, 2017, 'Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Diversity', in morand S; lajaunie C; Satrawaha R (ed.), Biodiversity Conservation in Southeast Asia Challenges in a Changing Environment, Earthscan Conservation and Development, Oxon, pp. 33 - 46,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Robinson DF; Chiarolla C, 2017, 'The role of databases, contracts and codes of conduct', in Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Taylor & Francis, pp. 108 - 121,
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Bavikatte SK; Robinson D, 2016, 'Putting Peoplehood at the Center of the Green Economy', in Kohli K; Menon M (ed.), Business Interests and the Environmental Crisis, Sage Publications Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, pp. 207 - 237
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Robinson D, 2016, 'Beyond 'Protection': Promoting traditional knowledge systems in Thailand', in Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development, pp. 121 - 138
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Robinson D; Parfitt C, 2015, 'Trade-Related Intellectual Property: Implications for the Global Seed Industry, Food Sovereignty and Farmer's Rights', in Handbook on the Globalisation of Agriculture, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 291 - 308
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Robinson DF; Drozdzewski D; Kiddell L; Robinson D; Kiddell L, 2014, 'You can’t change our ancestors without our permission: Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy', in Arvanitakis J; Fredriksson M (ed.), Piracy: Leakages from Modernity, Litwin Books, LLC, Sacramento, CA., pp. 55 - 76,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Kalpage S; Merson J; Robinson DF, 2012, 'Landscape-based conservation and sustainable resource use in the developing world: A case study from Sri Lanka', in Merson J; Cooney R; Brown P (ed.), Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 16 - 33,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Robinson DF, 2012, 'Biopiracy and the Innovations of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities', in Drahos P; Frankel S (ed.), Indigenous Peoples’ and Innovation: Intellectual Property Pathways to Development, ANU E-Press, Canberra, pp. 73 - 90,
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Robinson DF, 2012, 'Potential gains and challenges from biodiversity access and benefit-sharing: lessons from case studies and national systems', in Merson J; Cooney R; Brown P (ed.), Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 277 - 298,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, 'Local Agricultural and Environmental Knowledge: Working with Thai Institutes and Communities', in Jennings J; Packham R; Woodside D (ed.), Shaping Change: Natural Resource Management, Agriculture and the Role of Extension, APEN, Australia, pp. 102 - 108
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, 'Sui Generis Systems for Plant Variety Protection and Traditional Knowledge in Asia', in Melendez-Ortiz R; Roffe P (ed.), Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development: Development Agendas in a Changing World, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 235 - 270
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Robinson DF, 2008, 'Beyond `Protection` : Promoting Traditional Knowledge Systems in Thailand', in Patenting Lives: Life patents, culture and development, ASHGATE, Aldershot, pp. 121 - 138
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Conrad* V; Robinson DF, 2024, 'The Dissonance Between “Big Fashion” Discourses and Nepalese Garment Workers’ Environmental Voices', Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, pp. 1 - 21,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Gillespie J; Robinson DF; O’Donnell T, 2024, 'Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship', Progress in Human Geography, 48, pp. 316 - 331,
    Journal articles | 2024
    McDuie-Ra D; Robinson DF; Gulson KN, 2024, 'Pandemic surveillance and mobilities across Sydney, New South Wales', Geographical Research, 62, pp. 45 - 57,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Ohlin G; Trueb L; Raven M; Robinson DF, 2024, 'Towards a Fairer and More Equitable Bushfoods Industry: access and benefit-sharing and certification frameworks', Australian Geographer,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Wright E; Robinson D, 2024, 'The Patents Māori Advisory Committee of Aotearoa New Zealand: Lessons for indigenous knowledge protection', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 27, pp. 222 - 241,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Aime E; Robinson D, 2023, 'Indigenous biocultural rights and the Blue Mountains: Local and international policy challenges', Geographical Research, 61, pp. 413 - 428,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Robinson DF; Wright E, 2023, 'Access and benefit-sharing: what indicators to measure ‘success’?', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38, pp. 795 - 798,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Adhikari K; Bikundo E; Chacko X; Chapman S; Humphries F; Johnson H; Keast E; Lawson C; Malbon J; Robinson D; Rourke M; Sanderson J; Tranter K, 2021, 'What should farmers’ rights look like? The possible substance of a right', Agronomy, 11, pp. 367,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Raven M; Robinson D; Hunter J, 2021, 'The Emu: More-Than-Human and More-Than-Animal Geographies', Antipode, 53, pp. 1526 - 1545,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Robinson D; Raven M; Makin E; Kalfatak D; Hickey F; Tari T, 2021, 'Legal geographies of kava, kastom and indigenous knowledge: Next steps under the Nagoya Protocol', Geoforum, 118, pp. 169 - 179,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Robinson DF; Raven M, 2020, 'Recognising Indigenous customary law of totemic plant species: Challenges and pathways', The Geographical Journal, 186, pp. 31 - 44,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lai JC; Robinson DF; Stirrup T; Tualima HY, 2019, 'Māori knowledge under the microscope: Appropriation and patenting of mātauranga Māori and related resources', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 22, pp. 205 - 233,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Masud S; Robinson DF; Sultana N, 2019, 'Factors influencing communities’ flood risk perceptions: outcome of a community survey in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment, Australia', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 26, pp. 407 - 425,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Robinson DF, 2019, 'Pathological lives: disease, space and biopolitics', AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER, 50, pp. 132 - 134,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Robinson DF; Graham N, 2018, 'Legal pluralisms, justice and spatial conflicts: New directions in legal geography', Geographical Journal, 184, pp. 3 - 7,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Robinson DF; McDuie-Ra DA, 2018, '(En)counter-feiting Bangkok: The urban spatial interlegalities of intellectual property law, enforcement and tolerance', The Geographical Journal, 184, pp. 41 - 52,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Robinson D; Humphries F; Loban H, 2017, 'Implications of indigenous land tenure changes for accessing indigenous genetic resources from northern australia', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 34, pp. 560 - 579,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Robinson D; Raven M, 2017, 'Identifying and Preventing Biopiracy in Australia: patent landscapes and legal geographies for plants with Indigenous Australian uses', Australian Geographer, 48, pp. 311 - 331,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Masud S; Merson J; Robinson DF, 2016, 'Adapting a holistic approach to flood management in the Hawkesbury–Nepean region: complexities and perceptions of the agencies involved', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 59, pp. 1126 - 1147,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Robinson DF; Drozdzewski D, 2016, 'Hybrid identities: juxtaposing multiple identities against the ‘authentic’ Moken', Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 23, pp. 536 - 554,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Robinson DF; Forsyth M, 2016, 'People, plants, place, and rules: the Nagoya Protocol in pacific island countries', Geographical Research, 54, pp. 324 - 335,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Drozdzewski D; Robinson DF, 2015, 'Care-work on fieldwork: taking your own children into the field', Children's Geographies: advancing interdisciplinary understanding of younger people's lives, 13, pp. 372 - 378,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Robinson D; Bavikatte KS; Oliva MJ, 2015, 'Biocultural Community Protocols: Dialogues on the Space Within', IK: Other Ways of Knowing, 1, pp. 1 - 31,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Robinson D, 2015, 'TRIPS and Developing Countries: Towards a New IPR World Order?', GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 53, pp. 111 - 113,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Robinson D, 2014, 'Business and biodiversity: Towards sustainable use value chains?', , pp. 16 - 19,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Robinson D, 2014, 'Nagoya Protocol in the Spotlight with CBD meet ahead', , pp. 4 - 8
    Journal articles | 2013
    Bartel R; Graham N; Jackson S; Prior JH; Robinson DF; Sherval M; Williams S, 2013, 'Legal geography: An Australian perspective', Geographical Research, 51, pp. 339 - 353,
    Journal articles | 2013
    McDuie-Ra D; Robinson DF; Kaewmahanin J, 2013, 'Spatial dysfunction in post-tsunami Baan Lion: Taking the Moken beyond vulnerability and tradition', Geoforum, 48, pp. 145 - 155,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Robinson DF, 2013, 'Legal geographies of intellectual property, 'traditional' knowledge and biodiversity: Experiencing conventions, laws, customary law, and Karma in Thailand', Geographical Research, 51, pp. 375 - 386,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Bavikatte K; Robinson DF, 2011, 'Towards a People's History of the Law: Biocultural Jurisprudence and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing', Law, Environment & Development Journal, 7, pp. 35 - 55,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Robinson DF; Gibson C, 2011, 'Governing knowledge: Discourses and tactics of the european union in trade-related intellectual property negotiations', Antipode, 43, pp. 1883 - 1910,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Timperley DG; Banks C; Robinson D; Roth J; Sacks R; Harvey RJ, 2011, 'Lateral frontal sinus access in endoscopic skull-base surgery', International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology, 1, pp. 290 - 295,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Zhang C; Robinson DF; Wang J; Liu J; Liu X; Tong LJ, 2011, 'Factors influencing farmers' willingness to participate in the conversion of cultivated land to wetland Program in Sanjiang National Nature Reserve, China', Environmental Management, 47, pp. 107 - 120,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, 'Dealing with Traditional Knowledge Under the ABS Protocol', Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 4, pp. 8 - 10,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, 'Locating biopiracy: Geographically and culturally situated knowledges', Environment and Planning A, 42, pp. 38 - 56,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Kuanpoth J; Robinson DF, 2009, 'Protection of Geographical Indications: The Case of Jasmine Rice and Thailand', Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2009, pp. 281 - 398
    Journal articles | 2009
    Robinson DF; Edwards DJ, 2009, 'Sustainable housing design: measurement, motivation, and management in Sutherland Shire, Sydney, Australia', Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design, 36, pp. 336 - 354,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Robinson DF; Kuanpoth J, 2009, 'The Traditional Medicines Predicament: A Case Study of Thailand', The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 11, pp. 375 - 403,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Robinson DF, 2009, 'Biopiracy concerns heat up over chilli pepper', Bridges Trade BioRes Review, 3, pp. 6 - 7,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Robinson DF, 2008, 'Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection Systems: liability rules and non-UPOV systems of protection', Journal of intellectual property law and practice, 3, pp. 659 - 665
    Journal articles | 2004
    Gibson CR; Robinson DF, 2004, 'Creative Networks in Regional Australia', Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture and Policy, 112, pp. 83 - 100
  • Working Papers | 2010
    Robinson DF, 2010, Traditional Knowledge and Biological Product Derivative Patents: Benefit-Sharing and Patent Issues Relating to Camu Camu, Kakadu Plum and Açaí Plant Extracts, United Nations University, Darwin, ,
  • Other | 2023
    Robinson D; Raven M; Bob K; Nusumetu Community Conservation Managers , 2023, Nusumetu Community Conservation Area Protocol, UNSW and Vanuatu Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC), Sydney, Australia and Port Vila, Vanuatu,
    Reports | 2023
    Robinson D; Raven M; Puapii R; Aitutaki Vairakau Maori Network , 2023, Aitutaki Traditional Medicines and Healers Network Protocol, UNSW, Sydney
    Reports | 2023
    Robinson D; Raven M; Puapii R, 2023, Aitutaki Vairakau Maori Network Protocol (Cook Island Maori version)
    Reports | 2022
    Chand R; Robinson D; Drews A, 2022, LESSONS FROM THE PACIFIC IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL ON ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES AND THE FAIR AND EQUITABLE SHARING OF BENEFITS ARISING FROM THEIR UTILISATION, SPREP, Apia, Samoa, 1, ,
    Other | 2022
    Strelein L (ed.), 2022, True Tracks Book Review, Australian Institute of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra,
    Reports | 2021
    Robinson D, 2021, Pacific Patent Landscaping. Final Report, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn & Eschborn, Germany,
    Reports | 2012
    Robinson DF, 2012, Towards Access and Benefit-Sharing Best Practice: Pacific Case Studies, DSEWPAC and GIZ, Canberra and Eschborn,
    Reports | 2011
    Robinson DF; Defrenne E, 2011, Argan: A case study on ABS?, Union for Ethical Biotrade, Geneva,
    Reports | 2008
    Mullapudi S; Robinson DF, 2008, Towards a Balanced 'Sui Generis' Plant Variety Regime: Guidelines to Establish a National PVP Law and an Understanding of TRIPS-Plus Aspects of Plant Rights, United Nations Development Programme, New York,
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Robinson DF, 2007, 'Local agri-cultural and environmental knowledge: working with local institutes and communities in Thailand', in Jennings J; Packham R; Woodside D (eds.), Proceedings: APEN Forum 07 'Capture, Consolidate and Communicate', ANU Canberra, pp. 253 - 268, presented at APEN Forum 07: Capture, Consolidate and Communicate, ANU Canberra
  • Media | 2024
    Robinson D; Raven M; Barba B; Gall A, 2024, Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this, The Conversation, Sydney,
    Media | 2022
    Robinson D; Raven M; Korosy Z; Burke A; Moon K; Lim M, 2022, Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail, ,
    Media | 2020
    Robinson D; Jefferson D; Raven M; Claudie D; Bosse J, 2020, Australia’s plants and animals have long been used without Indigenous consent. Now Queensland has taken a stand, The Conversation, ,

Daniel is currently the Pacific Regional Manager of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Capacity Development Initiative, which has a 5 year project implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the Pacific from 2017 to 2021. See:

Daniel is Chief Investigator with Dr Margaret Raven on the 5 year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project(DP180100507): Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018-2022).

Daniel is the Academic Co-Lead for the Pacific, for the UNSW Institute for Global Development, a university-wide strategic initiative. See:

Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) Dean's Award winner for Research Excellence (2023) - Indigenous Knowledge Futures with Dr Miri Raven

Arts, Design and Architecture (ADA) Dean's Award winner for Teaching Excellence (2023) - Indigenous knowledges and Caring for Country course with several collaborators.

Arts and Social Sciences Dean's Award winner for Research - Social Impact (2016)
Research Fellow, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Geneva (2014 - 2018)

Daniel is Chief Investigator with Dr Margaret Raven on the 5 year Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project(DP180100507): Indigenous knowledge futures: protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge (2018-2022, extended to 2025).

Daniel was recently the Pacific Regional Manager of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Capacity Development Initiative, which had a 5 year project implementing the Nagoya Protocol in the Pacific from 2017 to 2022. See:

Daniel is the Academic Lead for the Pacific, for the UNSW Institute for Global Development, a university-wide strategic initiative. See:

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, New York (short term, late 2018)
  • Research Fellow, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (), Geneva
  • Pacific Regional Project Manager,, Pacific
  • Member, Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture ()
  • Research Associate at the: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment
  • Former Co-convenor,, Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)
  • Centre member, Center for Ecosystem Sciences (CES), UNSW

Reviews, Reports,Discussion Papers & Media

  • Robinson, D.F. and Raven, M. (2019) 'Ethical Trade in Natural Products based on Traditional Knowledge'Trade For Development News,EIF, WTO, Geneva,, 24 October 2019.
  • Robinson, D.F. (2018) 'What Next to Protect and Promote IndigenousKnowledge'Opinion atICTSD, Geneva, 19 July 2018.
  • Robinson,D.F. Book Review: 'TRIPS and Developing Countries: Towards a new IP World Order?' by Ghidini et al. (eds) (2014) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, in,2015, Vol 53(1): 111-113.
  • Robinson, D. ‘Towards Access and Benefit-Sharing Best Practice: Pacific Case Studies.’ DSEWPAC, Canberra and GIZ, Eschborn, Germany (2012).
  • Robinson, D. And Defrene, E. (2011) ‘’ Union for Ethical Biotrade, presented at the Beauty of Sourcing with Respect conference in Paris, 6 May 2011.
  • Robinson, D. (2010) ‘’, United Nations University Traditional Knowledge Inititative (UNU-TKI).
  • Robinson, D. (Oct. 2009) ‘’Bridges Trade BioRes Review.
  • Savita Mullapudi and Robinson, D. (ed) (2009)Towards a Balanced Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection System for Developing Countries. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York. 33pp URL:
  • Robinson, D. (March 2007)Exploring Components and Elements of Sui Generis Systems for Plant Varieties Protection and Traditional Knowledge in Asia. ICTSD-UNCTAD and IDRC, Geneva. 60pp. At:g
  • Dozens of journalistic contributions to ICTSDBridgesandBioResover more than 10 years:
  • Additional extensive media relating to Kakadu Plum and bush foods and medicines, for example on ԲپDzԲ,, as well as , SBS Radio World News, , Print media such as ,le monde diplomatique, Deutche Welle and others.

My Research Supervision

  • Denise True (MRes ongoing) - TEK and Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Kayla Lochner (PhD, ongoing) - Just transitions in the Pacific (tentative title).

Past students:

  • Sanjay Kalpage (PhD Conferred, now working for International Fund for Agricultural Development - IFAD, South Africa) - Landscape-base conservation approaches in the developing world: The case for managed elephant ranges in Sri Lanka.
  • Rebecca Cross (PhD Conferred, now lecturing at Sydney University) - Conversations with Farmers: Agri-cultural practice change and the farming ‘innovator’
  • Nahid Sultana (PhD Conferred, Working for UNSW) - Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts and Coastal Zone Management in Bangladesh
  • Thanh Pham (PhD Conferred, Working for the Government of Viet Nam) - Catchment management in Vietnam
  • Shafaq Masud (PhD Conferred, now working for Swiss International Development Agency) - Participatory monitoring for water resource management: planning for climate change in Western Sydney
  • Pratistha Tamrakar (MPhil Conferred) - Community forests and water quality in Lamatar district of Nepal
  • Carla Guedes (MRes Conferred) - Cultural competence in Indigenous Astronomy.
  • Nerida Godfrey (PhD Conferred) -Becoming-with movement: Life course mobilities and alternative cartographies of independent contemporary dancers
  • Caitlin Buckle (PhD Conferred, now working as a lecturerat UNSW) - Mapping mobile lives: Explorations of migrants' lived experiences through narrative, visual imagery and virtual visitation
  • Hai-Yuean Tualima (Scientia PhD) - Traditional Knowledge in Samoa.
  • Bob Fuller (PhD conferred, now a research fellow at UWS) - Songlines of the Eastern Saltwater Aboriginal Peoples.
  • Vanessa Conrad (MPhil) - Ethical and sustainable hemp value chains in Nepal.

My Teaching

Dr Robinson contributes teaching intothe Masters of Environmental Management (MEM), and was formerly the MEM Coordinator (2010-2018)

Guest lectures in:

  • IEST5003: Addressing Environmental Issues
  • IEST5007: Political Ecology: Sustainable Development and Justice
  • IEST7600: Indigenous Knowledges and Caring for Country