Beschreibung:
This collection of original essays stimulates 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. The chapters are largely informed by green criminology perspectives and provide a systematic and comprehensive introduction to a topic that to date has received little attention within criminology.
1: Toward a Criminology of Environment-Conflict Relationships 1; I: Conflict over Natural Resources Possession; 2: Mapping the Links between Conflict and Illegal Logging; 3: Gorillas and Guerrillas; 4: Land Uses and Conflict in Colombia; 5: With or Without a Licence to Kill; II: Conflict over Declining Resources; 6: The State-Corporate Tandem Cycling Towards Collision; 7: Somalis Fight Back; III: Conflict that Destroys Environments; 8: Resource Wars, Environmental Crime, and the Laws of War; 9: The Poaching Paradox; 10: Weaponising Conservation in the 'Heart of Darkness'; IV: Conflict over Natural Resources Extraction Processes; 11: The Hidden Injuries of Mining; 12: On Harm and Mediated Space; 13: Environment and Conflict