Environmental crime and social conflict : contemporary and emerging issues / edited by Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA, Nigel South, University of Essex, UK, Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Contributor(s): Brisman, Avi
Language: English Series: Green criminologyPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xv, 328 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781472422217 (ebook)Subject(s): Offenses against the environment | Criminology -- Environmental aspects | Social conflictGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.1/45 LOC classification: HV6401 | .E585 2015Online resources: Full text available at ProQuest Ebook Central Click here to view
Contents:
1. Toward a criminology of environment-conflict relationships / Avi Brisman, Nigel South and Rob White -- Part I. Conflict over natural resources possession. 2. Mapping the links between conflict and illegal logging / Tanya Wyatt ; 3. Gorillas and guerrillas : environment and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Richard Milburn ; 4. Land uses and conflict in Colombia / David Rodríguez Goyes ; 5. With or without a licence to kill : human-predator conflicts and theriocide in Norway / Ragnhild Sollund -- Part II. Conflict over Declining Resources. 6. The state-corporate tandem cycling towards collision : state-corporate harm and the resource frontiers of Brazil and Colombia / Bram Ebus and Karlijn Kuijpers ; 7. Somalis fight back : environmental degradation and the Somali pirate / Victoria E. Collins -- Part III. Conflict that destroys environments. 8. Resource wars, environmental crime, and the laws of war : updating war crimes in a resource scarce world / Aaron Fichtelberg ; 9. The poaching paradox : why South Africa's 'rhino wars' shine a harsh spotlight on security and conservation / M.L.R. Smith and Jasper Humphreys ; 10. Weaponising conservation in the 'heart of darkness' : the war on poachers and the neocolonial hunt / Tyler Wall and Bill McClanahan -- Part IV. Conflict over natural resources extraction processes. 11. The hidden injuries of mining : frontier cultural conflict / Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg and Alison McIntosh ; 12. On harm and mediated space : the BP oil spill in the age of globalization / Nels Paulson, Kim Zagorski and D. Chris Ferguson ; 13. Environment and conflict : a typology of representations / Avi Brisman.
Summary: This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology. The chapters provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction and overview of conflict situations stemming from human exploitation of environments, as well as the impact of social conflicts on the wellbeing and health of specific species and ecosystems. Largely informed by green criminology perspectives, the chapters in the book are intended to stimulate new understandings of the relationships between humans and nature through critical evaluation of environmental destruction and degradation associated with social conflicts occurring around the world. With a goal of creating a typology of environment-social conflict relationships useful for green criminological research, this study is essential reading for scholars and academics in criminology, as well as those interested in crime, law and justice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Toward a criminology of environment-conflict relationships / Avi Brisman, Nigel South and Rob White --
Part I. Conflict over natural resources possession. 2. Mapping the links between conflict and illegal logging / Tanya Wyatt ; 3. Gorillas and guerrillas : environment and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Richard Milburn ; 4. Land uses and conflict in Colombia / David Rodríguez Goyes ; 5. With or without a licence to kill : human-predator conflicts and theriocide in Norway / Ragnhild Sollund --
Part II. Conflict over Declining Resources. 6. The state-corporate tandem cycling towards collision : state-corporate harm and the resource frontiers of Brazil and Colombia / Bram Ebus and Karlijn Kuijpers ; 7. Somalis fight back : environmental degradation and the Somali pirate / Victoria E. Collins --
Part III. Conflict that destroys environments. 8. Resource wars, environmental crime, and the laws of war : updating war crimes in a resource scarce world / Aaron Fichtelberg ; 9. The poaching paradox : why South Africa's 'rhino wars' shine a harsh spotlight on security and conservation / M.L.R. Smith and Jasper Humphreys ; 10. Weaponising conservation in the 'heart of darkness' : the war on poachers and the neocolonial hunt / Tyler Wall and Bill McClanahan --
Part IV. Conflict over natural resources extraction processes. 11. The hidden injuries of mining : frontier cultural conflict / Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg and Alison McIntosh ; 12. On harm and mediated space : the BP oil spill in the age of globalization / Nels Paulson, Kim Zagorski and D. Chris Ferguson ; 13. Environment and conflict : a typology of representations / Avi Brisman.

This impressive collection of original essays explores the relationship between social conflict and the environment - a topic that has received little attention within criminology. The chapters provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction and overview of conflict situations stemming from human exploitation of environments, as well as the impact of social conflicts on the wellbeing and health of specific species and ecosystems. Largely informed by green criminology perspectives, the chapters in the book are intended to stimulate new understandings of the relationships between humans and nature through critical evaluation of environmental destruction and degradation associated with social conflicts occurring around the world. With a goal of creating a typology of environment-social conflict relationships useful for green criminological research, this study is essential reading for scholars and academics in criminology, as well as those interested in crime, law and justice.

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