Story | 15 Aug, 2012
Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development: Protecting our Rights
The guide addresses the question of how can we make sure that development initiatives are really sustainable and bring positive results for the well-being of indigenous communities. One of the best strategies we can use is to demand that all development initiatives respect our human rights.
Story | 15 Aug, 2012
Our Country Our Way: Guidelines for Australian Indigenous Protected Area Management Plans
Our Country Our Way is an illustrated guide that can be used by anyone interested in developing a management plan for an Indigenous Protected Area. Indigenous Protected Area management plans are based on making connections between Indigenous people, country, traditional law, custom and culture…
Story | 15 Aug, 2012
Development of Linked Cultural and Biophysical Indicators for the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area
The International Journal of Science in Society 2 (4):181-194. CEESP member Rosemary Hill and colleagues published a Journal article reinforcing that worldwide there are examples of ecosystems that exist in their current state due to the complex interactions between people and the environment…
Story | 15 Aug, 2012
'Bitter Seeds' documentary reveals tragic toll of GMOs in India
We sometimes lose sight of the fact that Big Ag's influence extends far beyond our own borders. Micha Peled's documentary Bitter Seeds is a stark reminder of that fact.
Bitter Seeds exposes the havoc Monsanto has wreaked on rural farming communities in India, and serves as a fierce…
Story | 15 Aug, 2012
Financialisation, Biodiversity Conservation and Equity: Some currents and concerns
WHEN nature is viewed in monetary terms, is it the nature that is valued, or the money? And what implications does this have for ecosystems and equity, given a financialised economy that rewards money products and their brokers, and that tends towards speculative and volatile dynamics?
…Story | 14 Aug, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America
BOOK REVIEW: Forests and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America. Hall, Anthony. 2012. Edgar Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA, USA.
Story | 14 Aug, 2012
BOOK REVIEW: Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes
BOOK REVIEW: Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes, Coral J. Pierce Colfer and Jean-Laurent Pfund, Eds, Earthscan, UK and USA, 2011, 285pp, ISBN : 978-1-84971-177-7, Price A$ 88.00 (Hard copy)
Story | 14 Aug, 2012
Environmental assessments: biodiversity and indigenous people at risk
Though Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIAs) can be useful tools they often fail to protect biodiversity and indigenous people. This paper describes some of the reasons and suggests some solutions.
The International Association for…
Story | 14 Aug, 2012
ICCA Consortium at Rio+20: time to learn, time to think strategy...
We were a relatively small group1 from the ICCA Consortium to attend Rio+20, this last June. We organized and held our events, met colleagues, discussed issues to the point of losing our voice, attended gathering, events and protest marches, did some strategic thinking and planning and went back…