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Community stewardship: the foundation of biocultural rights [PDF]
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2015 The term ‘biocultural rights’ denotes a community’s long established right, in accordance with its customary laws, to steward its lands, waters and resources. Such rights are being increasingly recognized in international environmental law. Biocultural rights are not simply claims to property, in the typical market sense of property being a universally
Kabir Sanjay Bavikatte, Tom Bennett
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From farmers’ rights to the rights of peasants: seeds and the biocultural turn
Review 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
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The rights way forward: reconciling the right to food with biodiversity conservation
Oryx, 2023 The current paradigm of biodiversity conservation, with its continued focus on the notion of pristine nature, has resulted in the separation of humans and nature at the expense of both biological and cultural–linguistic diversity.
Winy Vasquez, Terry Sunderland
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Forest and Society, 2022 Burgeoning recognition of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and livelihood practices have led to ‘Special Cultural Zone’ designations for some traditionally Indigenous lands in Thailand.
Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan +2 more
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COMMUNITY PROTOCOLS AND BIOCULTURAL RIGHTS: Unravelling the Biocultural Nexus in ABS [PDF]
, 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics ...
Girard, Fabien +2 more
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Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible
Ecology and Society, 2020 Although biocultural stewardship models have been written about widely, especially in Indigenous and rural communities, the practice of applying them in multicultural, urban environments has rarely been explored. We have yet to realize the full potential
Heather L. McMillen +5 more
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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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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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