The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation community is being challenged to take stronger measures to respect human rights and is taking opportunities to further their realisation. ‘Rights-based approaches’ (RBAs) to conservation are a promising way forward, but also raise a myriad of new challenges and questions, including what such approaches are, when and how they can be put into practice, and what their implications are for conservation.
This volume gives an overview of key issues and questions in RBA. Rights and social justice related policies of major international organisations are reviewed. Case studies and position papers describe RBAs in a variety of contexts - protected areas, natural resource management, access and bene t-sharing regimes, and proposed reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanisms. No one blueprint for RBA emerges. However, there are common themes: supporting both procedural and substantive rights, linking rights and responsibilities, equalising power relations, providing capacity building for rights holders and duty bearers, and recognising and engaging with local leaders and local people.
RBAs can support improved governance but are, in turn, shaped by the governance systems in which they operate, as well as by history, politics, socio-economics and culture. Experience and dialogue will add to a fuller understanding of the promises and challenges of RBAs to conservation. The aim of this volume is to contribute to that discussion.
A roadmap for readers
Jessica Campese, Terry Sunderland, Thomas Greiber and Gonzalo Oviedo
Chapter 1: Rights-based approaches to conservation: An overview of concepts and questions
Jessica Campese
Chapter 2: Conservation and human rights—Who says what? A review of international law and policy
Linda Siegele, Dilys Roe, Alessandra Giuliani and Nicholas Winer
Chapter 3: The conversatorio for citizen action: Fulfilling rights and responsibilities in natural resource management in Colombia
Jenny Springer and Kate Studd
Chapter 4: Enhancing rights and local level accountability in water management in the Middle East: Conceptual framework and case studies from Palestine and Jordan
Peter Laban, Fidaa Haddad and Buthaina Mizyed
Chapter 5: Conservation and human rights in the context of native title in Australia
Lisa M Strelein and Jessica K Weir
Chapter 6: Where conservation and community coincide: A human rights approach to conservation and development in the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
Wendy Crane, Trevor Sandwith, Eleanor McGregor and Amanda Younge
Chapter 7: Rights-based conservation and the quality of life of indigenous people in the Bolivian Chaco
Michael Painter
Chapter 8: Rights-based approaches to natural resource management in buffer zone community forests: Learning from the grassroots
Sudeep Jana
Chapter 9: Seeking respect for a Sherpa community conserved area: Responsibility, recognition and rights in the Mount Everest region of Nepal
Stan Stevens
Chapter 10: My rights, your obligations: Questions of equity in Indonesia’s protected areas
Moira Moeliono and Elizabeth Linda Yuliani
Chapter 11: Integrating gender equality and equity in access and benefit-sharing governance through a rights-based approach
Gabriela Mata and Adél Anna Sasvári
Chapter 12: Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and human rights
Kathleen Lawlor and David Huberman
Chapter 13: What have we learned and where do we go from here?
Jessica Campese, Terry Sunderland, Thomas Greiber and Gonzalo Oviedo
Campese, J., Sunderland, T., Greiber, T. and Oviedo, G. (eds.). 2009. Rights-based approaches: Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation. CIFOR and IUCN. Bogor, Indonesia. 306pp.
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