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Biocultural Rights

2018
Chapter 5 explores the difficult and challenging questions that arise from the sui generis nature of biocultural rights: they carry certain characteristics that are typical of human rights discourse as well as others that are difficult to fit into its categories.
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Rights with limits: biocultural rights – between self-determination and conservation of the environment

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2015
Kabir Bavikatte has recently argued that a new 'basket' of group rights is emerging from the interpretation of multilateral environmental agreements, domestic law and case law, and from shifts in the development discourse and the struggles of communities.
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Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural

Studies in Indian Politics, 2017
Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2015. 244 pages. ₹850.
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Implementing Farmers' Rights under the FAO International Treaty on PGRFA: The need for a Broad Approach Based on Biocultural Heritage

2011
This paper argues that a broad vision and approach that protects biocultural heritage as a whole is needed to effectively implement Farmers’ Rights under the FAO Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. This means going beyond a focus on protecting farmers’ rights to benefit-sharing, to include protection of farmers’ customary rights
Argumedo, Alejandro   +3 more
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Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (2016), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultures

Science, Technology and Society, 2017
Rajshree Chandra (2016), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultures. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 240 pp., ₹850 (Hardcover), ISBN: 0-19-945976-2.
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Biocultural rights: Walking the distance between traditions

2019
The author engages with some of the main theses that Sajeva faces in her book. Bio-cultural rights seem to realize an alternative approach, different from the traditional and “Western” one, when environment conservation is at stake. On the other hand, they are also perfectly understandable, because they seem to revolve around some key notions which are
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BIOCULTURALISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – FROM THE ECUADORIAN FORESTS OF THE AMAZON TO THE RIGHTS OF NATURE

Roczniki Administracji i Prawa
In the face of the deepening ecological crisis, endeavours to develop a more effective mechanism for protecting the environment are being intensified. The rights of nature are an innovative legal concept that, in a broader perspective, leads the way to understanding the interrelationships and interdependencies between humans and nature.
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Biocultural Rights in the Biodiversity Regime: Relationality and the Limits of Instrumentalism

The biodiversity regime has attempted to navigate conflicting conceptualisations of human–nature relations, straddling instrumental, intrinsic and relational valuations of Nature. Yet, from the inception of the Convention on Biological Diversity, instrumental value has been given primacy, shaping not only the goals of the regime but also the tools it ...
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Protecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge Through a Biocultural Diversity Framework

Journal of Environment and Development, 2022
Cora Anne Romanow
exaly  

Epistemological, Ontological, and Ethical Dimensions of Biocultural Rights: The Case of the Atrato River, Colombia

In 2016, the Colombian Constitutional Court recognized the Atrato River as a subject of rights based on the theory of biocultural rights. This dissertation analyzes a new legal concept that aims to defend the rights to a good life for humans and other-than-human co-inhabitants who share river ecosystems, focusing on the case of the Atrato River in ...
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