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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… 67 2 Tenure Rights … as resulting not only from drought but from land degradation linked to loss of natural vegetation … riches. According to the views of many indigenous peoples, land should not be torn open and exploited, which they … and/or applied in practice; unclear and/or ignored tenure rights). • Determine what rights are most likely to be …
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Review of the Legal and Policy Framework for Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

… on acknowledging the right of prior informed consent. Tenure rights in many national legal systems fail to … conflicts between traditional law and general law, land tenure, land use and planning may place significant constraints on …
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Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region

… on acknowledging the right of prior informed consent. Tenure rights in many national legal systems fail to … conflicts between traditional law and general law, land tenure, land use and planning may place significant constraints on …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… DIHR Danish Institute for Human Rights DLA Department of Land Affairs (South Africa) DNPWC Department of National … on Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and forest tenure in Nepal. Rights-based approaches Exploring issues and … interest in social processes that shape patterns of land use. Before joining WCS he was the Monitoring and …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… Community institutions 101 Institutional arrangements for tenure and access 103 Institutions at the landscape level 106 … decision-making and participation by local communities in land-use decisions. Participatory decision-making involves the willingness of outsiders to negotiate land-use objectives and ways to meet those objectives. The …
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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action

… reduction of the impact of chemicals and prevention of land degradation, while generating sustainable livelihoods. … priorities, formal and informal protected areas and land uses in South Africa 87 Figure 13 Overlaps between … forces, and much of the conservation legal and customary tenure (for example who holds the legal or customary rights …
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Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… benefits are not only monetary: 4.2. Security of tenure 4.3. Site-specific, decentralised management, with … whether this order has really affected the powerful and land hungry encroachers, it has created absolute havoc in the … because of their names having not entered the official land records for no fault of theirs"6 “Establishment of a …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… and top-down strategies 47 3.2.4 The role of NGOs 49 3.2.5 Land tenure factors 50 3.2.6 Choosing instruments 51 Key messages … protection of environmental flows 103 Key messages 104 3.2 Land Use Planning Legislation 105 Introduction 105 3.2.1 …
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The Futures of Privately Protected Areas

… between 2000 and 2010, including ownership type 22 4. Land ownership of the NABU-Stiftung Nationales Naturerbe, … from partial data in 2012) 82 18. Options and tools for Land Stewardship: a roadmap towards a full property transfer … non-governmental organizations. De facto or de jure tenure should be clearly defined (even if the package of …
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

… CBD in 2000, states that the objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … and sub- national policymakers, decision-makers and land-use planners. Principle 9 contains specific advice for … the landscape scale. Principle 5: Decentralization, forest tenure and natural resource access rights Decentralized …
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