Indigenous people's rights

In an increasingly crowded world reconciling environmental ‘conservation’ with the ‘sustainable use’ of natural resources is now our greatest challenge. Nature conservation has traditionally focused on protecting iconic and important areas of biodiversity from human exploitation through the establishment of National Parks and World Heritage Areas.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in Southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise, with cross-border collaboration and ecotourism becoming vehicles of this promise. This book focuses on the forgotten people displaced by, or living on the edge of, protected wildlife areas.

Primitive target_ider is a well-established Norwegian journal publishing peer-reviewed articles in the fields of archaeology and heritage management. This special edition on World Heritage presents a collection of peer-reviewed articles developed from the interdisciplinary conference "Between dream and reality : Debating the impact of World Heritage Listing," held at the University of Oslo in November 2013. 

This book includes twenty case studies of World Heritage sites from around the world that explore, from a human rights perspective, indigenous peoples’ experiences with World Heritage sites and with the processes of the World Heritage Convention.

El bio-protocolo es una herramienta que forma parte de la gobernanza interna que se ejerce en el territorio Matumbak, en donde también se perfilan derechos consuetudinarios de autonomía y autodeterminación sobre el teritorio y sus recursos. El Gobierno Territorial de Mayangna Satuni Arungka-Matumbak, con su propia autonomía, gestionó ante UICN la construcción de un instrumento que sirviera de guía para la administración de los diferentes capitales de desarrollo con identar

A vast number of national parks and protected areas throughout the world have been established in the customary territories of indigenous peoples. In many cases these conservation areas have displaced indigenous peoples, undermining their cultures, livelihoods, and self-governance, while squandering opportunities to benefit from their knowledge, values and practices.