Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice

Rethinking Parks and People

Sharlene Mollett editor Thembela Kepe editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:17th Oct '19

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Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice cover

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand, biodiversity protection and conservation advocates, supported by global environmental organizations and states, remain committed to conservation strategies, steeped in genetics and biological sciences, working on behalf of a "global" mandate for biodiversity and climate change mitigation.

Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice seeks to illuminate struggles for land and territory in the context of biodiversity conservation. This edited volume explores the particular ideologies, narratives and practices that are mobilized when the agendas of biodiversity conservation practice meet, clash, and blend with the demands for land and access and control of resources from people living in, and in close proximity to, parks.

The book maintains that, while biodiversity conservation is an important goal in a time where climate change is a real threat to human existence, the successful and just future of biodiversity conservation is contingent upon land tenure security for local people. The original research gathered together in this volume will be of considerable interest to researchers of development studies, political ecology, land rights, and conservation.

"The subtitle of Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe’s admirably, coherent and tightly argued new volume, Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice is ‘Rethinking Parks and People’. The contributors’ multidisciplinary approach, broadly oriented within political ecology, places environmentalist justifications for forced removals and the extrajudicial killings of ‘poachers’ in stark relief."

- Scott Burnett, South African Journal of International Affairs

ISBN: 9780367820862

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

220 pages