A Legal Assessment of the Efficacy of Consultation with Indigenous Peoples

<p>This&nbsp;book&nbsp;offers&nbsp;a novel perspective&nbsp;on&nbsp;consultation&nbsp;with indigenous peoples in projects of natural resource exploitation. Engaging with current debates in international law, the study introduces&nbsp;a&nbsp;multi-dimensional perspective on&nbsp;consultation understood&nbsp;to include&nbsp;self-determination and cultural rights. It analyzes evidence from several countries across the Americas and Africa and presents an original and in-depth case study of Brazil. The book assesses judicial and legislative cases, drawing on relevant&nbsp;literature, international treaties and supplementary information gained from&nbsp;expert&nbsp;interviews. This supports the&nbsp;work’s&nbsp;broader objective to explore legal facts as well as&nbsp;to&nbsp;evaluate&nbsp;the&nbsp;empirical&nbsp;evidence&nbsp;in light of&nbsp;theoretical considerations.&nbsp;It thereby&nbsp;expands&nbsp;the understanding of consultation as a right under national legal systems&nbsp;and considers practical ways on how to enforce domestic redress for avoiding legal indeterminacy.&nbsp;The conclusions of the analysis contribute to not only a better understanding of the subject matter but also showcase ways of how to improve the realities on the ground. The&nbsp;book&nbsp;puts forward a range of recommendations directed at&nbsp;national authorities, international organizations, development lenders and civil society to help improve the&nbsp;unsatisfactory present circumstances.&nbsp;The intended&nbsp;audience&nbsp;encompasses legal scholars, students, practitioners and journalists, as well as anyone&nbsp;interested in research on the realization of indigenous peoples’ rights and the role of international law in the 21st century.&nbsp;</p>