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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples And Local Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected. With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way ...
Girard, Fabien   +2 more
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Community Protocols and Biocultural Rights

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter introduces the collection of contributions to the book by first exploring the “biological diversity/cultural diversity” nexus against the backdrop of biocultural community protocols (BCPs) and biocultural rights. It goes back to the genesis of cultural protocols (CPs) and moves on to BCPs and examines how BCPs are used as legal tools.
Girard, Fabien   +2 more
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Understandings and critiques of biocultural diversity conservation and future recommendations for conservation actors [PDF]

open access: yesConservation Biology
As biocultural approaches to conservation gain traction (e.g., through international commitments to Indigenous Peoples and local communities) and external conservation actors increasingly seek to engage with on-the-ground holders of biocultural diversity,
York NDL.
exaly   +3 more sources

Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects [PDF]

open access: yesTransnational Environmental Law, 2020
AbstractThe recognition of rivers and related ecosystems as legal persons or subjects is an emerging mechanism in transnational practice available to governments in seeking more effective and collaborative natural resource management, sometimes at the insistence of indigenous peoples.
Elizabeth Macpherson   +2 more
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From farmers’ rights to the rights of peasants: seeds and the biocultural turn

open access: yesReview of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2021
In light of the ongoing agrobiodiversity erosion process, we delve into the history of crop genetic resources governing instruments to show how the international agrobiodiversity regime has evolved from a limited appreciation of the contribution of farmers/peasants to a broader recognition of the critical role indigenous peoples, local communities, and
Girard, Fabien, Frison, Christine
openaire   +5 more sources

Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation: A case study of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative in northern Kenya

open access: yesPeople and Nature
The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, yet mounting evidence indicates that current methods for preventing biodiversity loss are insufficient and often intensify unjust conditions for Indigenous Peoples and ...
Natalie D. L. York   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of wetland birds in biocultural conservation: analysing global discourses and practices on species and ecosystems

open access: yesEcosystems and People
Biocultural approaches for conservation weave knowledge systems of both Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LCs) with scientific insights to address environmental justice and promote local and global sustainability.
Paola Araneda   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Biocultural Labels Initiative: Supporting Indigenous rights in data derived from genetic resources [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2020
Internationally, questions of ethics and equity, especially in relation to responsible sharing of data across multiple national platforms, are creating a new range of issues for researchers in the science and innovation sectors. In many nation states, even for those that are not yet signatories to the Nagoya Protocol (Secretariat of the Convention on ...
Jane Anderson, Maui Hudson
openaire   +4 more sources

Contested Rights of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples in Conflicts over Biocultural Diversity: The case of Karen communities in Thung Yai, a World Heritage Site in Thailand

open access: yesModern Asian Studies, 2015
AbstractThe conceptualization of interrelations between biological and cultural diversity since the 1980s indicates a biocultural turn in discourses and policies regarding nature conservation, sustainable development, and indigenous peoples. These interrelations frequently manifest as conflicts between local communities who derive their livelihoods and
Buergin, Reiner
openaire   +4 more sources

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