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Environmental crime and social conflict : contemporary and emerging issues /

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. - xv, 328 pages ; 24 cm. - Green criminology .

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 RodriÌguez 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.

9781472422200 (hardback : alk. paper) 9781472422217 (ebook)

2014037304


Offenses against the environment.
Criminology--Environmental aspects.
Social conflict.

HV6401 / .E585 2015

364.1/45

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