Abstract
This article analyzes legal approaches for meeting the needs and interests of local human communities that utilize biodiversity and inhabit areas important for their conservation. Effectively addressing these needs is a crucial area for international law concerned with the sustainable development of biological diversity.' This article further suggests directions that international law should take to promote realization of this objective. It draws upon the perspective of law as process. 2 In this context, it recognizes that indigenous and other long-term occupant communities are participants 3 in the international system, and proposes that international political and legal structures must accommodate this reality in order to find adequate solutions to many challenges facing global society. The majority of existing international instruments have failed to provide a supportive legal environment for local resource de
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