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A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose
A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Green Cathedral: Sustainable Development of Amazonia by Juan de Onis and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England by Theodore Steinberg
The Challenge Of Indigenous Self-Determination, Russel Lawrence Barsh
The Challenge Of Indigenous Self-Determination, Russel Lawrence Barsh
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The Earth Summit at Rio was the first global negotiation in which indigenous peoples participated directly. They did so with the aim of advocating land rights and greater self-determination in the fields of natural-resource management and development. They justified these claims by arguing that indigenous peoples are superior stewards of the land and that strengthening indigenous peoples' traditional economies would contribute to solving global ecological and economic problems. This approach succeeded all too well. Jaded diplomats and environmental ministers seized on the hopeful possibility that indigenous economics actually might work better than discredited socialism and overextended capitalism, and they invited …