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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… broader guarantees of conservation as itself a right are emerging. A further challenge may arise from … the right to live in a healthy environment and to have access to basic public services. 2. The States parties shall … (Rio de Janeiro, 14 June 1992), which declares that access to information, public participation in decision …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene� t-sharing regimes, and proposed reduced … Chapter 11 Integrating gender equality and equity in access and 251 benefit-sharing governance through a … Participatory Action Research PARF Protected Area People’s Right Federation (National coalition of communities affected …
Review of the Legal and Policy Framework for Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa
… co-operation. State sovereignty denotes a state’s right to act without outside interference whereas state … legal systems recognise this right. However, effective access to a remedy requires more than just statutory … transparent and citizens must have significant rights of access to information. In many countries, civil society …
Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region
… co-operation. State sovereignty denotes a state’s right to act without outside interference whereas state … legal systems recognise this right. However, effective access to a remedy requires more than just statutory … transparent and citizens must have significant rights of access to information. In many countries, civil society …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… institutions 101 Institutional arrangements for tenure and access 103 Institutions at the landscape level 106 Devolution … to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their … to support poverty reduction as a fundamental human right and development goal. The conservation approach …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and another dealing with access and benefit sharing (ABS), implemented by the … and Trevor Sandwith Abbreviations and acronyms ABS Access and Benefit Sharing APIs Areas of Particular … simply remain effective conservation measures in their own right. Thus, areas that do not fit the IUCN definition of a …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… should be guided by three principles, including the right to a satisfactory environment and the right to … abstrac- tion. Parties must also ensure that people have access to sufficient and continuous supply of water. In … genetic resources for food and agriculture. Regarding access and benefit sharing (ABS),42 the African Convention …
A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa
… argue that a global commons insti- tution can regulate access to global resources in such a manner as to reduce or … Inter-state conflicts and competition over control of and access to natural resources such as water that are central to … progress to date but rather to ensure that its design is right. There remain numerous but pertinent issues that need …
Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual
… in specific productive sectors, as well as improving their access to basic services including water and sanitation, … not, why were they not involved? Did all stakeholders have access to information about the decision, before and after it … can be written on a flip chart include: Everyone has the right to understand Any question is a good question …
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… and wills, loan contracts, or agreements granting the right to use the property 4. Included in a local or national … rights in a single area of land or water, such as for access, to use resources or for settlement. The extent to … in the case of marine protected areas where, for example, access for shipping, fishing and other rights are likely to …