Description: With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation's political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
Review Quotes: "Annette A. LaRocco's well-written book advances our understanding of the intersection of biodiversity conservation and state politics. It is a welcome text for political ecological research and African studies." --Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town