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Safeguarding indigenous lands, territories and resources from unsustainable developments

… be lost or severely degraded if current deforestation and degradation rates continue; STRESSING the importance of the … NOTING the many examples in which indigenous peoples’ land/sea use planning approaches, such as 'Indigenous Life … unsustainable developments as well as other forms of land and ecosystem degradation; 2. RECOMMENDS that …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… Guidelines on the responsible Governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the Context of national food … of responsible practices for the use and control of land, fisheries and forests. They provide guidance for … population requires food security, and as environmental degradation and climate change reduce the availability of …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … environmental disasters and more long-term environmental degradation, which produce life-threatening diseases. … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… 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 … of a large number of people as well as ecological degradation.13 The country's largest water and land
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect … disrespectful tourism, poverty and population dynamics, degradation of neighbouring environ- ments, reduction of the …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… of case studies 27 IndIgenous peoples 27 Power on this land; managing sacred sites at Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia Bas Verschuuren, Mawalan II Marika and Phil … to the site’s biological and ecological significance. Degradation caused by the vast number of pilgrims who visit …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… traditional peoples to the use of certain resources and land, to knowledge, technology, power, decision making, … and which secure their entitlements to self determination, land, natural resources, information, education, health … change, given the already existing water stress, land degradation and the limited capacity to adapt in these …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of the different contributions to global environmental degradation,States have common but differentiated … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Preamble para. 5), and the 2001 Stockholm … http://informea.org/treaties/land-based …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

The Role of Indigenous and Local Communities

… Tinoc, Ifugao Philippines have been revitalizing customary land use and territorial management using culturally-defined … e.g. on linguistic diversity, traditional occupations, land tenure and land use change. Data generated includes … community and local government) to prevent environmental degradation and promote peoples’ wellbeing through the …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… them to overcome the conflicts that lead to further degradation of the natural resource base. The results of this … Settled Areas to be eaten by the ibex Kanal – measure of land equivalent to 605 square yards Kasabgar – artisan Khabo … Nullah – stream, and the surrounding pasture and forest land Numberdar/Lumbardar/Trangpa – village headman Opoom – a …
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