When Rights Embrace Responsibilities
Subtitle: Biocultural Rights and the Conservation of Environment
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780199485154
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation; Indigenous peoples; Environmental protection
Description: The book discusses the development of the emerging concept of biocultural rights, which are defined as a basket of group rights. These rights are aimed at protecting the stewardship role that certain indigenous peoples and local communities have towards environment. This work provides an overview of the current ethical debate on different approaches towards the conservation of environment and the problematic definitions of indigenous peoples and local communities.