Indigenous People and Protected Areas: The Law of Mother Earth

by ElizabethKemf (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.25

  The most valuable ecosystems and many of the most remote and beautiful areas of the world are home to peoples who have depended on them and managed their resources sustainably - often for millenia. Faced with the pressures of development, governments and conservation agencies look for ways of protecting such places, often overlooking the claims and experience of the inhabitants. This study claims that the natural environment and the local societies stand or fall together, and that the former can only be successfully preserved when the livelihoods of the people are secured. It describes more than 30 places around the world where the interests of nature and the rights and needs of the local people have been met simultaneously.