ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|83 pages
Conflict over Natural Resources Possession
chapter 3|18 pages
Gorillas and Guerrillas
chapter 5|28 pages
With or Without a Licence to Kill
part II|51 pages
Conflict over Declining Resources
chapter 6|28 pages
The State-Corporate Tandem Cycling Towards Collision
part III|63 pages
Conflict that Destroys Environments
chapter 8|20 pages
Resource Wars, Environmental Crime, and the Laws of War
chapter 9|24 pages
The Poaching Paradox
chapter 10|18 pages
Weaponising Conservation in the ‘Heart of Darkness'
part IV|73 pages
Conflict over Natural Resources Extraction Processes