Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
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| Author(s) | Stevens, S. |
| Date | April 1997 |
| Reference type | Edited Book |
| Pages | 383 pp. |
| Publisher | Island Press, Washington, D.C. |
Summary
For more than a century the establishment of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their homelands peoples who had shaped and preserved local ecosystems for centuries. Today such tragic conflicts are being superseded by new alliances for conservation. Conservation Through Cultural Survival assesses cutting-edge efforts to establish new kinds of parks and protected areas which are based on partnerships with indigenous peoples. it chronicles new conservation thinking and the establishment around the world of indigenously-inhabited protected areas, provides detailed case studies of the most important types of co-managed and indigenously-managed areas, and offers guidelines, models, and recommendations for international action.
Themes
Protected areas
Indigenous and Local Community Rights
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