Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice explores the tension that often arises between the differing aims and objectives of land justice advocates and conservation and biodiversity advocates. In illustrating the spaces between competing agendas of land governance and conservation, the book offers a counter- narrative that affirms that 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.

Sharlene Mollett is an assistant professor in the Centre for Critical Development Studies and the Department of Human Geography Department at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Thembela Kepe is a professor in the Department of Geography, and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

1. Introduction: Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking Parks and People Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe Part 1: Justice 2. Meanings, Alliances and the State in Tensions over Land Rights and Conservation in South Africa Thembela Kepe 3. The promise and limit of environmental justice through land restitution in protected areas in South Africa Maano Ramutsindela and Medupi Shabangu Part 2: Militarization, Violence and Exclusion 4. Deploying Difference: Security threat narratives and state displacement from protected areas Elizabeth Lunstrum and Megan Ybarra 5. Green Violence: Market-Driven Conservation and the Re-Foreignization of Space in Laikipia, Kenya Brock Bersaglio 6. Elusive Space: Peasants and resource politics in the Colombian Caribbean Diana Ojeda and María Camila González 7. "When Land Becomes Gold": Changing Political Ecology of the Commons in a Rural-Urban frontier Shubhra Gururani Part 3: Indigenous Territorial Struggles 8. Indigeneity, alternative development and conservation: political ecology of forest and land control in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Khairul Chowdhury 9. Wapichan Wiizi: Conservation Politics in the Rupununi (Guyana) Katherine MacDonald 10. Science as friend and foe: the 'technologies of humility' in the changing relationship to science in community forest debates in Thailand Vanessa Lamb and Robin Roth 11. The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve: A postcolonial feminist reading of violence and Miskito territorial struggles in Honduras Sharlene Mollett