Planting a Sustainable Root for Geographical Indications

This book is written for local food producers, consumers, researchers, and policymakers who support sustainable development. By exploring the pre-set functions of Geographical Indications (GIs), this book proves that it is imperative that GIs contribute to sustainable development, e.g., the preservation of local biophysical resources and cultural heritage, climate change mitigation and rural revitalization. This is a multidisciplinary research project involving law, circular economy, and systemic design, with the conclusion which is based on deductive reasoning and exemplified by selected cases. Focusing on EU law and Chinese law on GIs, this book puts forward suggestions for further improvement of GI legislations in the EU and China from a functional perspective concerning values, the subject matters, and protection measures so that GIs can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals. It also provides guiding rules for solving the identified conflicts contained in the EU-China Agreement on GIs. This is the first book that explains the product and origin link of GI using circular economy theory in addition to the terroir theory. This book can guide local producers to design their production model in a sustainable way and help policymakers to turn GIs into a sustainable development tool.

Redesigns the pre-set function, subject matter, and protection measures of the GI protection regimes Shows local producers how to design their production model sustainably Helps policymakers to design GIs regimes using circular economy theory and systemic design theory

Autorentext

Jianmei Gao is a lecturer at Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property, Tongji University, China. She obtained her doctoral degree in law at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and her research was funded by China Scholarship Council and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She was awarded the title of Pujiang Scholar by Shanghai Government in 2022. She has hosted three projects concerning geographical indications supported by China Scholarship Council, Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. She obtained two masters' degrees: one is in Intellectual Property Law and the other is in Sustainable Innovative Design. Her research interests cover geographical indication, traditional knowledge, trademark, agricultural policy, circular economy, and their interaction with sustainable development.

Inhalt

Richard Wilhelm's I Ging and the School of Wisdom.- The Significance of Richard Wilhelm's I Ging and his Recorded Aleatory Practices.- The Wilhelm-Jung-Baynes Partnership in Producing the I Ching.- Cheng Yi, Wilhelm, and Jung as I Ching Commentators: A Lineage of Ambiguous Influences.- The Impact of Carl Jung's Psychological Views on Wilhelm/Baynes's I Ching.- The Wilhelm/Baynes's I Ching in Light of Susanne Langer's Philosophy of Symbolism.- The Multifaceted Reception of Richard Wilhelm's I Ging in Weimar Germany.- The Three-Layered Reception of I Ging in Scandinavia: Richard Wilhelm as the Canonical Source.- The Representation of Wilhelm/Baynes's I Ching in American Science Fiction.- The Divine Stage: The Reception of Wilhelm/Baynes's I Ching in Postwar American Theatre.- A Translation that Transcends: The Wilhelm/Baynes's I Ching in Academic and Popular Discourses.