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01-12-2007 | Editorial

Indigenous Perspectives on Ecosystem Sustainability and Health

Authors: Carolyn Stephens, Margot W. Parkes, Healani Chang

Published in: EcoHealth | Issue 4/2007

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Indigenous peoples have been guardians of our global environment and its medicines for millennia—built on a communal view of humanity and its links to the ecosystem. Yet as the new millennium rolls out, Indigenous peoples are among those most marginalized within many nation states, they have the worst health indicators, and their knowledge continues to be threatened as the land and resources they depend on are appropriated, developed, degraded, or destroyed. …

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Title: Indigenous Perspectives on Ecosystem Sustainability and Health
Authors: Carolyn Stephens
Margot W. Parkes
Healani Chang
Publication date: 01-12-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: EcoHealth / Issue 4/2007
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-007-0140-2

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