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Civil Society River
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SPERI’s work toward creating a Grassroots foundation for Traditional Civil Society Organizational & Institutional Development beyond national, territorial, social, and political borders has resulted in the creation of Mekong Community Network Action for Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA).
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Livelihood Sovereignty
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Livelihood Sovereignty is ‘a holistic ethical alternative solution’ which consists of five inter-relative rights: 1) The right to land, forest and water, clean air and natural landscape (basic); 2) The right to maintain one’s own religion (unique); 3) The right to live according to one’s own way of life and values of happiness and wellbeing within one’s own natural environment (practice); 4) The right to operate according to one’s own knowledge and decide what to plant, initiate, create and invent on one’s own land; (holistic); and 5) The right to co-manage or co-govern natural resources with neighboring communities and local authorities (strategic).
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Worship Nature
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Nature is the Mother of all creatures. Such a simple and long lasting philosophy should always remind us to promote ‘Friendliness in mind - Faith in our behaviour - and Beauty in our relationships’.
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| Spirit Forestland, Customary Law and Indigenous Ethnic Minority Communities in Vietnam |
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Dam Trong Tuan, Keith Barber |
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12/2015 |
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452 |
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KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING HOUSE |
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Community spirit forest land, customary law, land rights, community forest, livelihood sovereignty, forest land allocation, land use planning, local knowledge |
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| Abstract: |
This book brings together in one collection a selection of writings expressing the views and methodological approaches of the Social Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI) and its Livelihood Sovereignty Alliance partners - Consultancy on Development (CODE) and Culture Identity and Resources Use Management (CIRUM) - on spirit forestland, customary law and indigenous ethnic minority communities in Vietnam since 1995. The articles collected here are edited versions of articles published elsewhere as research reports or academic theses written by Livelihood Sovereignty Alliance staff. Contact us for hard copies. |
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Consultation workshop for approval the customary laws based community regulations in watershed forestland management in Luang Prabang, Laos 
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