Natural Resources and Human Rights

✍ Scribed by Jrmie Gilbert;

• Publisher: OUP Premium
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Natural Resources and Human Rights
Copyright
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Instruments
Introduction
1. Context: Resources Conflicts, the ‘Curse’, and Resource Grabbing
2. Scope of the Book
3. Which Natural Resources? Terminology and Definitions
4. Conceptual Framework and Methodology
5. Structure of the Book
1. Sovereignty, Self-​Determination, and Natural Resources: Reclaiming Peoples’ Rights
1. Introduction
2. Sovereignty over Natural Resources: The State Approach
2.1 Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Decolonization and Economic Order
2.2 Non-​Self-​Governing Territories and Natural Resources
3. Self-​Determination over Natural Resources: Peoples’ Rights
3.1 The Emergence of the Right to Self-​Determination over Natural Resources
3.2 A Compromised and Ambiguous Right
4. Reclaiming Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples, Peasants, and Food Sovereignty
4.1 Indigenous Peoples and the Revival of Self-​Determination over Natural Resources
4.2 Food Sovereignty, Peasants, and Natural Resources
5. Conclusion
2. Property Rights and Natural Resources: States, Communities, and Corporations
1. Introduction
2. The Human Right to Property: From Eminent Domain to Land Rights
2.1 Eminent Domain, Property Rights, and Natural Resources
2.2 Indigenous Peoples’ Property Rights to Land and Natural Resources
3. Community Property Resources: Forests and Fishing Rights
3.1 Community Forest Rights
3.2 Community Fishing Rights
4. Corporate Property Rights, Natural Resources, and Local Communities
4.1 Corporate Property Rights, Privatization, and the Right to Water
4.2 Concessionary Rights, Investors, and Arbitration
5. Conclusion
3. Governance of Natural Resources and Human Rights: From Development to Benefit-​Sharing
1. Introduction
2. The Right to Development and Natural Resources: From Participation to Consent
2.1 A Human Rights-​Based Approach to Development: From Rhetoric to Participation
2.2 From Consultation to a Right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC): Indigenous Peoples and Beyond?
3. Development, Participation, and Benefit-​Sharing
3.1 Fair and Equitable Benefits: From Biodiversity to Human Rights
3.2 Benefit-​Sharing Agreements and Human Rights: States, Peoples, and Industries
4. Taxation, Fiscal Regimes, and Transparency
4.1 Maximum of Available Resources and Natural Resources
4.2 Transparency on Taxation over Natural Resources
5. Conclusion
4. Life and Natural Resources: Livelihood, Conflicts, and Personal Integrity
1. Introduction
2. The Right to Life and Natural Resources: The Livelihood Approach
2.1 Famine, Food, and Water: A Right to Human Dignity
2.2 Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Livelihood
3. Conflicts and Natural Resources: The Accountability Approach
3.1 War Crimes, Pillage, and Destruction of Natural Resources
3.2 Criminal Accountability, International Criminal Law, and Natural Resources
4. Natural Resources Defenders: The Physical Integrity Approach
4.1 Murders, Arbitrary Killings, and Enforced Disappearances: A Right to Physical Integrity
4.2 Violence from Non-​State Actors: From Impunity to Extraterritorial Litigation
5. Conclusion
5. Cultural Rights and Natural Resources: Cultural Heritage, Traditional Knowledge, and Spirituality
1. Introduction
2. The Diversity Approach: Natural Resources as a Way of Life
2.1 Minorities’ Way of Life: Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
2.2 Cultural Diversity, Natural Resources, and Identity
3. The Cultural Heritage Approach: Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resources
3.1 ‘World Heritage Sites’, Natural Resources, and Human Rights
3.2 Intangible Heritage, Traditional Knowledge, and Human Rights
4. The Spiritual Approach: Sacred Sites, Sacred Practices, and Natural Resources
4.1 Freedom of Religion, Sacred Natural Sites, and Spirituality
4.2 Sacred Practices and Indigenous Peoples’ ‘Cosmovision’
5. Conclusion
6. Protecting Natural Resources: Conservation, Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Human Rights
1. Introduction
2. Human Rights and the Pollution of Natural Resources
2.1 Pollution and the Right to a Healthy Environment: From Theory to Practice
2.2 Procedural Rights, Transboundary Pollution, and Corporations
3. Nature Conservation, Biodiversity, and Human Rights: From Wildlife to Biocultural Rights
3.1 From ‘Fortress Conservation’ to ‘Stewardship Rights’
3.2 Biodiversity, Human Rights, and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights
4. Climate Change, Natural Resources, and Human Rights
4.1 Climate Justice, Discrimination, and Adjudication
4.2 Carbon Trading and the Commodification of Natural Resources
5. Conclusion
Conclusion
1. Human Rights and the Legalization of Natural Resources Management
2. What is the Content of a Human Rights-​Based Approach to Natural Resources?
3. Specific Rights-​Holders: Indigenous Peoples, Rural Women, Farmers, and Local Communities
4. Duty-​Bearers: States, International Organizations, Financial Institutions, and Corporations
5. The Value of a Human Rights-​Based Approach to Natural Resources: Prospects, Challenges, and Limitations
Selected Bibliography
Index