The Legal Framework behind Biocultural Rights
, 2022 The idea of biocultural rights strives to address the overall issues of indigenous peoples and local communities in relation to the environment and to conflate together the different rights needed to promote their self-government and conservation of cultural identity.
Giulia Sajeva
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Indigenous biocultural rights and the Blue Mountains: Local and international policy challenges
Geographical Research, 2023 Abstract Indigenous knowledges play a critical role in addressing the environmental crisis, and the United Nations system has adopted a suite of international treaties to protect and strengthen Indigenous peoples’ rights, which are often described as biocultural rights.
Elodie Aimé, Daniel F Robinson
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International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2015 This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources.
Cher Weixia Chen, Michael Gilmore
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Not “just necessity”? Two-x-eco-cultural dilemmas and the ethnobiological importance of the informal grannies’ markets in Moldova [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineInformal food markets, particularly those managed by (elderly) women in post-communist Eastern Europe, represent a biocultural phenomenon of profound significance since globalisation and increasingly strict legal frameworks often threaten these ...
Andrea Pieroni +5 more
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Conservation through Biocultural Heritage—Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, 2019 In this paper, we review the potential of biocultural heritage in biodiversity protection and agricultural innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. We begin by defining the concept of biocultural heritage into four interlinked elements that are revealed through
Anneli Ekblom +4 more
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Human needs and environmental rights to water: a biocultural systems approach to hydrodevelopment and management [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2013 Large‐scale hydrodevelopment involves synergistic processes and generates cumulative effects that include the degradation of rivers and the complex human environmental systems they support. To avert impending crises in water scarcity and food security many nations are reshaping the priorities, regimes, and praxis of fresh water resource management to ...
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Using Biocultural Rights to Rethink Environmental Law Through Human Rights
This chapter looks at the contribution that the framework of biocultural rights can make to re-envisioning human rights and their relationship with nature within the framework of environmental law. Human rights and the rights of nature appear to walk two separate paths.
Giulia Sajeva, Chris Hilson
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Socio-agronomic features define the structure of socioecological seed exchange network and “on farm” conservation of agrobiodiversity in quilombola communities in Brazil [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Traditional agricultural systems are rooted in the local management, selection, and conservation of agrobiodiversity. Understanding the socioecological dynamics that sustain these systems is essential for developing sustainable practices that ...
Isabella Fernandes Fantini +4 more
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Revisiting the Definition and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for Biodiversity Conservation [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionGlobally, there is no single universally agreed‐upon definition of Indigenous Peoples, yet specific criteria are typically used to define whether someone is Indigenous or not, namely self‐identification, historical continuity, linkage to ancestral land ...
Ronju Ahammad +3 more
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