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Literary References

1. Clay, Jason, "Looking Back to Go Forward," in State of the Peoples: A Global Human
 Rights Report on Societies in Danger, Cultural Survival (Beacon Press, Boston, 1993) p. 66.

2. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND BIODIVERSITY*
Victor M. Toledo, Institute of Ecology, National University of Mexico (UNAM)
 
3. Worldwatch paper #112: Guardians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples and the Health of
 the Earth.

4. Center for Economic and Social Rights, "Rights Violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon" (Center for Economic and Social Right, New York, 1994) p. 1.

5. D. Lawrence, D. Peart, and M. Leighton, "The Impact of Shifting Cultivation on a Rainforest Landscape in West Kalimantan: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics," Landscape Ecology, 12:135-148, 1998. Cited in Jefferson Fox, "Mapping a Changing Landscape: Land Use, Land Cover, and Resource Tenure in Northeastern Cambodia," unpublished manuscript.

6. John MacKinnon and Kathy MacKinnon, Review of the Protected Areas System in the Indo-Malayan Realm (Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1986).

7 This section is based on contributions from Claudia D'Andrea, Jeff Campbell, and Muayat Mushi, William Sundartin, and the editor.

8 Indigenous Peoples Community Biodiversity Management Initiative. This page presents an overview of the following activities financed through the World Bank-Netherlands Partnership (WBNP) and RUTA between January 1 and September 30, 2000. The principal studies that resulted are at the bottom of this page. Within the Bank, this activity is managed by Juan Martinez.

9. World bank document Updated Project Information Document (PID) Report No: AB986
Project Name CENTRAL AMERICA - Indigenous Integrated Ecosystem Management GEF
Region Latin America and Caribbean Region: August 31, 2004


10. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES:
 
Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems
by Gretchen C. Daily, Susan Alexander, Paul R. Ehrlich, Larry Goulder, Jane
Lubchenco, Pamela A. Matson, Harold A. Mooney, Sandra Postel, Stephen H.
Schneider, David Tilman, George M. Woodwell
 

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