Wani, Milind and Kothari, Ashish (2007) Protected areas and human rights in India - The Impact of the official conservation model on local communities. Policy Matters (15). pp. 100-114.
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We reviewed the impact of some of India’s conservation policies on the livelihoods of communities living within areas protected for wildlife (national parks and wildlife sanctuaries). We did that in the background of United Nation’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving extreme poverty by 2015 and of the human rights framework, within which impoverishment can be seen as a violation of human rights. Our research at sites in three states of India suggests that conservation policy is having significant adverse impacts on resident and user communities. Some sincere attempts by the state and/or by NGOs to mitigate or minimize these impacts have been made, but they remain inadequate. Issues of poverty, conservation, human rights, citizenship rights, and land/resource tenure rights specific to India’s history and social-economic conditions are closely inter-linked. They cannot be addressed in a piece-meal manner, as has been done so far. A human rights approach that integrates conservation and livelihoods requires an active and informed participation of the communities living within protected areas. Conservation policy itself needs to embrace new paradigms of governance and participation that many countries are exploring.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | India, Protected Areas, Human Rights, Local Communities, Livelihoods, Policy, Millennium Development Goal (MDG), Poverty, Conservation, Displacement, Conflicts, Land Tenure and Use |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2022 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2022 10:41 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14165 |
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