Indigenous "traditional knowledge" in fishery and "sustainable development": international legal practice

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With a growing emphasis to the problem of sustainable development and indigenous issues, states and international organizations pay attention to indigenous peoples' 'traditional environmental knowledge' as a particular form of knowledge of the diversity and interactions among plants and animals, landforms, watercourses, and other traits of the biophysical environment in a given place. Sometimes its called Traditional Ecological Knowledge, it is typically associated with aboriginal peoples [6, p. 198]. The purpose of the article is to show in practice how states apply indigenous knowledge to protect environment, especially in fishery activity.

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«Традиционные знания» коренных народов в области рыболовства и «устойчивое развитие»: международно-правовая практика

Международно-правовые стандарты в области защиты прав аборигенных народов обязывают государства принимать меры по интеграции «традиционных знаний» в национальные системы мониторинга и защиты биоразнообразия (в частности, в рыболовстве). Статья посвящена практическим аспектам реализации прав коренных народов на устойчивое развитие и защиту исконной среды обитания.

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