Land-water management and sustainability : an indigenous perspective in Laitu Khyang community, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh
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2015-07
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University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CA
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Research findings reveal that current management practices imposed by both government and non-government agencies have seriously undermined local, traditional land and water management practices. The effects include: a dramatic increase in the non-Indigenous population resulting from an outsider brick-field industrial project; increased destitution, displacement, and deforestation of natural resources resulting from force, fraud, and manipulated occupation of forest and plain land; recent expansion of the Bangladesh Forest Department and private companies’ lumber plantation projects by outsiders; and increase in national and multinational corporations’ tobacco plantation projects.
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INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, RIGHT TO NATURAL RESOURCES CONTROL, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT, LAND USE, DEFORESTATION, GOVERNANCE, PLANTATIONS, LOGGING, LAND CONCENTRATION, IMPUNITY, TRADITIONAL TECHNOLOGY, CULTIVATION PRACTICES, YOUTH, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, LAND POLICY