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… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … communities: recovery of so-called traditional know-how, rehabilitation of the rights of local actors over natural … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …

… 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 … are alarming.4 Although nearly 12 percent of the earth’s land area are now Protected Areas (IUCN 2003), net Po v e r t …