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Forests and people : property, governance, and human rights / edited by Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sikor, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest people--Land tenure.
- Forest people.
- Forest people--Civil rights.
- Forest people--Government relations.
- Forest policy.
- Forest conservation.
- Forest management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Earthscan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. Forests and People presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry, connecting it with existing work on tenure reform, governance rights and cultural rights. As the editors note in their introduction, the attention to rights in forestry differs from 'rights-based approaches' in international development and other natural resource fields in three critical ways. First, redistribution is a central demand of activists in for
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Global perspectives
- pt. 2. What claims find support?
- pt. 3. Whose claims are considered to constitute rights?
- pt. 4. What authorities recognize forest people's rights?
- pt. 5. What political strategies serve rights recognition by the state?
- pt. 6. Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-68366-X
- 1-136-34285-0
- 0-203-12400-6
- 9780203124000
- OCLC:
- 804664965
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