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The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… taking into account not just scientific knowledge, but traditional and local knowledge, and incorporating under- … the outset to recognise the character of a principle. The traditional concept of a legal principle is that it provides … rely on biological resources for food, traditional medicine, fuel, building materials, ornaments, pets, …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… voluntary commitments or supply chain standards, and with traditional and indigenous norms and practices for conserving … to natural resources. Customary rules of indigenous and traditional communities may also be legally binding, within … and the resources it provides, including food, water, medicine and protection from the impacts of natural …
An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… opened up. Ways of applying this new technology to medicine were developed quite rapidly. The technology could … severe, e.g. through displacement of cash crops or traditional crops and dis- ruption of small scale farming … of concern. The lifestyles, live- lihoods and cultures of traditional and indi- genous communities, rural communities, …