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Title

Indigenous peoples : resource management and global rights / [edited by] Svein Jentoft, Henry Minde and Ragnar Nilsen.

Publication

Delft, The Netherlands : Eburon, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Jentoft, Svein, 1948-
• Minde, Henry
• Nilsen, Ragnar, 1948-
• Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference (7th : 2001 : Tromsø, Norway)

Description

ix, 315 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

The international group of authors of the essays included draw on examples from different parts of the world which highlight the issues that are involved in indigenous peoples struggle for control of their lives and their future. [from publisher's advertisement].

Subject

• Indigenous peoples > Congresses
• Human rights > Congresses
• Natural resources > Management > Congresses
• Water rights > Congresses
• Sami (European people) > Congresses
• Reindeer herding > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Social conditions > Congresses
• Indigenous peoples > Civil rights > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "The present volume is partly the outcome of the special session on Indigenous Peoples at the 7th Circumpolar Universities Cooperation Conference "When distance is a challenge," held at the University of Tromsø 19-21 August, 2001"--P. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Svein Jentoft -- The politics of sustainable development / Peter Jull -- Biodiversity and Canada's aboriginal peoples / Russel Lawrence Barsh and Sakej Youngblood Henderson -- Globalization, intellectual property and indigenous peoples / Erica-Irene Daes -- The challenge of indigenism: the struggle for Sami land rights and self-government in Norway 1960-1990 / Henry Minde -- Culture loss and sense of place in resource valuation: economics, anthropology and indigenous cultures / Robert Snyder, Daniel Williams and George Peterson -- Maori fishing rights: coping with the aboriginal challenge / Bjørn Hersoug -- The coastal Sami: a 'paraiah caste' of the Norwegian fisheries? A reflection on ethnicity and power in Norwegian resource management / Einar Eythórsson -- From Norwegianization to coastal Sami uprising / Ragnar Nilsen -- The challenge and the promise of Indigenous peoples' fishing rights / Anthony Davis and Svein Jentoft -- Encroaching upon indigenous land: Nicaragua and the 'Dry Canal' / María Luisa Acosta -- Sami Reindeer management in Norway: modernization challenges and conflicting strategies / Jan Åge Riseth -- The environmental sustainability of the property rights regimes in Inari: the performance of forest government and reindeer herding co-operatives / Jukka Nyyssönen -- For and against the rights of the Sami people: the argumentation of the Finnish majority in the debate on the Sami rights / Seija Tuulentie -- Conclusion / Henry Minde and Ragnar Nilsen -- About the authors.

ISBN

905166978X (pbk.)

OCLC

55102709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library