Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice by Sharlen... - 9780367820862

Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and JusticeRethinking Parks and People\nAuthor(s): Sharlene Mollett, Thembela Kepe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367820862, 978-0367820862\nSynopsis\nIn 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 peoples 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.\n\nLand Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice seeks to illuminate struggles for land and territory in the context of biodiversity cons.