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Community Forest Management
This book analyses the achievements of the movement - 'Friends of Trees and Living Beings' - and considers its significance within the context of a national legal and policy frameworks; drawing on candid interviews with villagers, activists, NGO staff and forestry officials.
Human Rights and Intellectual Property
CONTENTS: Human Rights & Intellectual Property; Towards Utopia or Irreconcilable Tensions? Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Human Rights & Competition Law; The Interface Between Intellectual Property, Competition & Human Rights: Overview of Filed & Proposed Contribution to Knowledge; Intellectual Property Rights & Access to Knowledge Models: Managing Innovation, Public Goods & Private Interest; Human Rights & Poverty Reduction: Why a Human Rights Approach to HIV/AIDS Makes all the Difference; Poverty & Human Rights; International Human Rights & Indigenous Peoples Today; Safeguarding Cultural Heritage, Protecting Intellectual Property & Respecting the Rights & Interests of Indigenous Communities: What Role of Museums, Archives & Libraries?; Gender Dimensions of Intellectual Property & Traditional Medicinal Knowledge; Intellectual Property & Human Rights: Myths & Reality on the Access to ARVs Medicines; Just Rules for Incentivising Pharmaceutical Research; Trade- Related Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines & Human Rights - Morocco; TRIPS: A 'Covenant without the Sword'?; Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) & Human Rights.
Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit
Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for cou...
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
This book questions the conventional belief that development brings about greater gender equality and better environmental management. Based on participatory research and in-depth fieldwork, Arora-Jonsson studies struggles for local forest management, the making of women's groups within them and how the women's groups became a threat to mainstream institutions. Engaging seriously with academic debates on gender, environment and development, this volume contributes to a much-needed dialogue among these fields.
India
This book reflects some of its rich and varied experience of India and its people. Focusing on particular problems facing the country - environment, trade and aid - the book will look at how people are working together to find solutions.
Wild Product Governance
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Resettling Displaced People
Hari Mohan Mathur, PhD, is Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi. He has held senior positions in the government, including Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan. Professor Mathur has also served as UN Advisor and Staff Consultant on development management and involuntary resettlement to the World Bank and ADB. In addition, he has also been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan. He has authored and edited several books on anthropology, development administration and resettlement. --Book Jacket.
Aluminum Ore
" ... Explores the often overlooked history of bauxite in the twentieth century, and in doing so examines the social, political, and economic forces that shaped the time."--Back cover
