Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous peoples, environment and development : proceedings of the conference Zurich, May 15-18, 1995 / edited by Silvia Büchi ... [et al.].

Publication

Copenhagen : IWGIA ; Zurich : Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Büchi, Silvia
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

Description

359 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Discusses approaches to development and conservation, alternative models, and strategies for implementing environmental protection and sustainable development on indigenous territories.

Series Statement

IWGIA document ; no. 85

Uniform Title

IWGIA document 85.

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Economic conditions > Congresses
• Ecology > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• conference paper.
• bibliography.
• comment.
• illustration.
• document de conférence.
• bibliographie.
• commentaire.
• documento de conferencia.
• bibliografía.
• comentario.
• ilustración.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Who are indigenous peoples / Andrew Gray -- Indigenous peoples, environment and development / Christian Erni -- Three years after Rio / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- But one part of a whole picture of survival: resource managment in Australia from an urban aboriginal perspective / Margeret Friel -- From victims to victors: development aggression and indigenous mobilisation in Bougainville / Rikha Havini -- Oil-producing minorities and the restructuring of Nigerian federalism / Ben Naanen -- Indigenous peoples and the political economy of logging: the case of Guyana and Suriname / Marcus Colchester -- Land rights as instruments of social transformation: the case of the Chittagong Hill tracts (Bangladesh) / Lorenz G. Löffler.
• Biodiversity conservation / Jonathan Kamomon Ole Lekuruon -- Reflection on indigenous peoples, natural resources and the Biopacific project / Euclides Peña Ismare -- The wisdom of the Karen in natural resource conservation / Prasert Trakansuphakon -- Interaction between biological diversity and cultural diversity / Jeffrey A. McNeely -- Indigenous peoples and caring for the Earth / Elizabeth Kemf -- Biodiversity conservation, traditional resource rights and indigenous peoples / Darrel A. Posey -- DNA and the origins of Shamanic knowledge / Jeremy Narby -- Beyond land rights / Never Tuesta Cerron -- Female voices / Sona Jharia Minz -- Reflections on indigenous self-development / Pedro Garcia Hierro.
• Development practice and indigenous peoples / Andrew Gray -- Indigenous peoples, international conventions and declarations and the state / Georg Henriksen -- Teachiang the state: lobbying for indigenous rights in the EU / Jacques de Kort.

ISBN

8798411020

OCLC

• 38264792
• SCSB-9991536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library