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Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Despite the ongoing impacts of climate change around the world, fossil fuels continue to drive the global economy. The socio-environmental impacts of oil development at the local level are widely recognized, especially in high biocultural diversity areas,
Daniele Codato +5 more
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Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects [PDF]
Transnational 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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Nature’s rights as Indigenous rights? Mis/recognition through personhood for Te Urewera
Espace populations sociétés, 2020 In Aotearoa New Zealand, person rights for nature have been added to the suite of resolution mechanisms for Treaty of Waitangi claims. New laws for two national parks personify landscapes and Maori relations with them to encourage greater appreciation ...
Brad Coombes
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Protecting biocultural diversity at Kazdaği National Park, Balikesir, Turkey: the role of Sacred Natural Sites [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2020 Official nature conservation efforts have lasted a little more than a century in the world. However, the history of protection of Sacred Natural Sites (SNSs) by local cultural groups goes back thousands of years because these places have sacred value and
Yılmaz Arı
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Drones, communities and nature: pitfalls and possibilities for conservation and territorial rights
Global Social Challenges Journal, 2023 Since the early 2010s, small drones have become key tools for environmental research around the globe. While critical voices have highlighted the threat of ‘green securitisation’ and surveillance in contexts where drones are deployed for nature ...
Sauls Laura Aileen +4 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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Conservation Letters, 2022 Increasingly the importance of Indigenous participation is acknowledged as central to effective biodiversity conservation. Traditional management emphasizes the importance of a holistic, integrated approach to safeguard species and ecological communities
Teagan Goolmeer +6 more
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The Biocultural Labels Initiative: Supporting Indigenous rights in data derived from genetic resources [PDF]
Biodiversity 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
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Ecosystems and People, 2023 Social-ecological mismatches in scale limit the recovery of ecosystems from environmental degradation, severely impacting the diverse groups who rely on them.
C. Y. Bataille +2 more
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El rio y sus guardianes. Derechos bioculturales en acción sobre el río Atrato
Nuevo mundo - Mundos NuevosIn 2016, the Colombian Constitutional Court granted rights to the Atrato River. Based on an ethnographic study conducted with the people involved in this decision, this article focuses on the mobilization of the notion of biocultural rights, original in ...
Sandrine Revet
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