Krishnan, B.J. (2000) Customary law. Protecting Nature a symposium on some legal issues concerning the environment, August 2000.
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THE linkages between people and nature are as old as humans themselves. Long before the rise of modern global society, communities throughout the world prospered by husbanding natural resources in an attempt to adapt to the local natural environment. In the process, a wide-ranging body of knowledge, innovations and practices evolved, inextricably linked to the use of natural resources. It enabled most communities to live within the limits of their local environment and contributed to shaping their cultural and spiritual identity as well. Any effort to conserve nature and ecosystems, therefore, must take into consideration the interface between nature and culture. Local communities, representing a significant part of India’s population, are rooted in their immediate environment and their social organisation is woven round the management of their environment with their culture elaboration taking place primarily through interaction with the immediate natural environment. These communities depend on local natural habitats for their biomass needs and natural resources. They have depended on their immediate natural environment for their survival for long and consequently developed a stake in conserving the local resources base.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | India, Customary Rights, Human Rights, Environment, Ecosystem, Local Communities, Fishing Rights, Access Rights, Community Rights, Cultural Rights, Traditional Rights, Conservation, Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, Natural Resources, Socio-economic Aspects, Biodiversity, Property Rights |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Bharti Vijaya |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2022 06:22 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2022 05:02 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/17310 |
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