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When Rights Embrace Responsibilities

open access: yes, 2018
The conservation of environment and the protection of human rights are two of the most compelling needs of our time. Unfortunately, they are not always easy to combine and too often result in mutual harm. This book analyses the idea of biocultural rights as a proposal for harmonizing the needs of environmental and human rights. These rights, considered
Sajeva, Giulia,, Sajeva, Giulia
exaly   +4 more sources

Rights with limits: biocultural rights – between self-determination and conservation of the environment

open access: yesJournal 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.
Giulia sajeva
openaire   +2 more sources

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.
exaly   +2 more sources

Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural

open access: yesStudies in Indian Politics, 2017
Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2015. 244 pages. ₹850.
Hidam Premananda
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Epistemological, Ontological, and Ethical Dimensions of Biocultural Rights: The Case of the Atrato River, Colombia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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 ...
González Morales, Valentina
openaire   +3 more sources

Protecting Indigenous and Local Knowledge Through a Biocultural Diversity Framework

open access: yesJournal of Environment and Development, 2022
: Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) is intrinsically connected to knowledge holders’ worldviews and relationships to their environments. Mainstream rights-based approaches do not recognize this interconnection and are hence limited at protecting the
Cora A Romanow
exaly   +2 more sources

Operationalizing the biocultural perspective in conservation practice: A systematic review of the literature

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Policy, 2022
The term ‘biocultural’ brings together the words ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ to emphasize the interconnected nature of life and human culture. Over the last 50 years, biological and cultural diversity have shown concomitant declines in abundance, leading
Jessica Lukawiecki   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

A framework for exploring and managing biocultural heritage

open access: yesAnthropocene, 2019
The conceptual framework of biocultural heritage allows for new approaches to heritage, nature conservation, landscape planning and development goals, providing means to negotiate management goals in these areas, and in certain cases, also to combine ...
Karl-Johan Lindholm, Anneli Ekblom
exaly   +2 more sources

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