Panel 2: Resource Management across traditional lands and waters

Webinar Series: Natural Resource Policy, Culture and Law: Land and Water Governance and Minority Peoples in the Asia-Pacific

Wednesday, March 2, 2022
6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom
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There are numerous varied examples of management regimes across Indigenous lands across the world. Many of these management regimes often have little input or concern for Indigenous interests and sensibilities. Nevertheless, as set for in art. 26(2) the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples "Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or traditional occupation or use..." This session explores some ways Indigenous groups have been able to exercise their control and management rights over their natural resources and waters with state policy makers or within indigenous management structures. In some instances, Indigenous peoples have exclusive or primary authority over their territories. More often, however they must share management with state actors. These arrangements are particularly complicated where Indigenous peoples use rights extend over a broad area and must be balanced against non-Indigenous use rights or property interests. This session critically discusses various approaches different groups and state actors have taken to solve natural resource management issues.

Moderator: Mitsuhiko Takahashi (Toyama University)

Speakers:

  • Ann McCammon-Soltis (Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission): “Treaty Guaranteed Rights in the Upper Great Lakes: Tribal Governance and Intergovernmental Relationships”
  • Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei (Institute of Wildlife Conservation National Pingtung University of Science and Technology): “Toward the Self-Governance of Indigenous Hunting in Taiwan”
  • Morihiro Ichikawa, Tomamu Law Office: “Comments from the perspective of the Japan’s Ainu salmon case.”
  • Tiffany Chisholm Gardner (University of Western Australia): “Recognising the Strengths in First Law: Co-governance as a Strategy for Water Decolonisation”

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Sponsor(s): Asia Pacific Center, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of New England (Australia) First Peoples First Peoples Rights and Law Centre (FPRLC); Science and Technology Innovation Center for Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and Sustainable Studies (CTPILS); National Chengchi University, Taiwan