The law is not enough: Protecting indigenous peoples' rights against mining interests in the Philippines

Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing: Lessons from the San-Hoodia Case

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 271-284

  Castillo, Rosa Cordillera A ^a   Alvarez Castillo, Fatima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Decision making; free and prior informed consent; indigenous peoples; mining; participatory action; Philippines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867489447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3123-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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