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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462351003321

Titolo

Forests and people : property, governance, and human rights / / edited by Thomas Sikor and Johannes Stahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Earthscan, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-68366-X

1-136-34285-0

0-203-12400-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SikorThomas

StahlJohannes

Disciplina

306.09152

Soggetti

Forest people - Land tenure

Forest people - Civil rights

Forest people - Government relations

Forest policy

Forest conservation

Forest management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Global perspectives -- pt. 2. What claims find support? -- pt. 3. Whose claims are considered to constitute rights? -- pt. 4. What authorities recognize forest people's rights? -- pt. 5. What political strategies serve rights recognition by the state? -- pt. 6. Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

A human rights-based agenda has received significant attention in writings on general development policy, but less so in forestry. Forests and People presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry, connecting it with existing work on tenure reform, governance rights and cultural rights.  As the editors note in their introduction, the attention to rights in forestry differs from 'rights-based approaches' in international development and other natural resource fields in three critical ways. First, redistribution is a central demand of activists in for