The basic tenets of sustainable development are the integration of environmental protection
with economic and social development; conservation of resources; equity; quality of life and participation.
However coordination of native title policy with broader Indigenous policies directed to
economic and social development of Indigenous people should not weaken the capacity of specific Indigenous policy areas to pursue these goals.
While this may ensure consistency in the way native title is approached from claim to claim, it does not guarantee that the native title negotiation is directed towards
achieving economic and social development.
General Recommendation XXIII provides guidelines to a non-discriminatory approach to development, including the provision by State parties of conditions «allowing for sustainable
economic and social development compatible with their cultural characteristics» (18) and requiring restitution for the deprivation of Indigenous land providing for «the right to just, fair and prompt compensation [which] should as far as possible take the form of lands and territories».
Such policies may influence whether negotiations will be confined to native title rights and interests as they are legally defined, or whether they address the broader
economic and social development needs of the claimant group.
The Commissioner made the comments following the release of this year's Native Title Report 2004, which provides a set of principles that aim to
build economic and social development opportunities from the recognition of traditional rights, interests and ownership of land.
We've had a good start with the Foundation for Puerto Rico, a not - for - profit whose mission is «to transform Puerto Rico... by
driving economic and social development through sustainable strategies.»
knowledge and including all educational agents, representing one necessary task to promote a dynamic and critical thinking, generating new ideas that
bring economic and social development, aimed to create a better world in the future.
The opportunity that native title can present to governments endeavoring to break the cycle of poverty that pervades Indigenous communities is evidenced by Canadian responses to land claims which
integrate economic and social development into the cultural values of the group.