Investing in locally controlled natural resource use

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17717IIED.pdf
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English
Published: July 2019
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We are in danger of losing the struggle to protect vital biodiversity, on land and in the ocean. A false choice between people and environment is causing many conservation efforts to overlook communities and lay waste to local livelihoods, as well as failing to protect wildlife. Meanwhile, agribusiness, extractives and other investment projects often take an aggressively short-term approach. Across the world, people who co-exist with and rely on natural resources — terrestrial and marine — see their rights and livelihoods eroded. Environmental justice is at the heart of IIED. We believe solutions to the untenable pressures on the living planet must also be built on foundations of social justice. This can only be achieved through meaningful engagement with the people who feel the shifts in our natural world most keenly.

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IIED (2019). Investing in locally controlled natural resource use. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/17717iied