QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES: GENDER AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES – Emerging Environmental Issues For Indigenous Peoples In Northern Australia - Marcia Langton EMERGING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA
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United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Indigenous peoples understand clearly the relationship between development for someone else, and their own underdevelopment. They also understand clearly the impacts of certain approaches to development on the environment and on the health of their peoples. For example, practices such as monoculture cash crop production, use of genetically modified seeds and mineral extraction lead to environme...
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تاریخ انتشار 2011