Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development: A Monograph

• Author: Ekaterina Andreyevna Zmyvalova
• Pages: 88-90

Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable

Development: A Monograph

Stanislav Gorbunov and Maksim Zadorin. Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable

Development: Monograph (Publishing house of the Northern (Arctic) Federal

University. Arkhangelsk. 2014). 358 pages. ISBN 978-5-261-00908-5.

ISBN 978-5-261-

00908-5.

A highly topical issue, the problem of sustainable development has generated intense

discussion in the academic community. Constituting up to five percent of the world’s

population, indigenous peoples represent one of the poorest and most disenfran-

chised segments of society. This isolates them from decision-making processes.

Despite efforts to assimilate them, some indigenous peoples have succeeded in

maintaining their indigenous knowledge and practices, which include valuable

approaches to sustainable development.

Considering the world’s sustainable development processes in terms of indigenous

peoples’ experiences is central for the authors of the book. The book deserves

attention inasmuch as the issue of indigenous peoples’ r ights is underestimated in

Russia, and very few legal scholars are conducting sufficient research in this field.

The dearth of legal literature in the Russian language has created a gap in the

understanding of indigenous rights’ issues, actively discussed at the international

level.

In their book, Gorbunov and Zadorin attempt to investigate both the cultural-

historical and the legal identity of the indigenous peoples of the world. In addition,

the monograph analyses existing national legal concepts applicable to indigenous

peoples struggling for their right to self-determination and sustainable development

in the era of globalization.

The book consists of four chapters on the following:

Arctic Review on Law and Politics

Vol. 7, No. 2, 2016, pp. 196198

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Citation: E. A. Zmyvalova. ‘‘Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development: A Monograph.’’ Arctic Review on Law and

Politics, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2016, pp. 196198. http://dx.doi.org/10.17585/arctic.v7.506 196