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Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime
In the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, contributing authors present novel ways to conceptualise environmental harm and describe its contemporary manifestations, identifying how to combat these crimes to ensure a sustainable future. They provide conceptual insights as well as empirical descriptions, investigating crimes of contamination, pollution, and ecological damage.
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In the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime, contributing authors present novel ways to conceptualise environmental harm and describe its contemporary manifestations, identifying how to combat these crimes to ensure a sustainable future. They provide conceptual insights as well as empirical descriptions, investigating crimes of contamination, pollution, and ecological damage.
Interdisciplinary and comprehensive in scope, this Encyclopedia adopts a broad view towards the causes of ecological harm and the strategies we can put into action to prevent further damage. Entries explore the nature and dynamics of these crimes and critically analyse topics such as state-corporate fault and non-human victimology.
Key Features:
● Over 50 entries written by leading experts from around the world
● Addresses issues of intersectionality, power imbalances, environmental victimisation, and speciesism
● Incorporates postcolonial and feminist approaches into the study of natural resource exploitation, including crimes such as wildlife trafficking and illegal mining and fishing
This Encyclopedia is a crucial resource for students and researchers of sociology, criminology and environmental law, politics and policy. It is also greatly beneficial to professionals working with bodies such as INTERPOL, the UN and other international organisations, as well as non-government organisations such as TRAFFIC, Greenpeace, WWF, IUCN and Sea Shepherd.
Interdisciplinary and comprehensive in scope, this Encyclopedia adopts a broad view towards the causes of ecological harm and the strategies we can put into action to prevent further damage. Entries explore the nature and dynamics of these crimes and critically analyse topics such as state-corporate fault and non-human victimology.
Key Features:
● Over 50 entries written by leading experts from around the world
● Addresses issues of intersectionality, power imbalances, environmental victimisation, and speciesism
● Incorporates postcolonial and feminist approaches into the study of natural resource exploitation, including crimes such as wildlife trafficking and illegal mining and fishing
This Encyclopedia is a crucial resource for students and researchers of sociology, criminology and environmental law, politics and policy. It is also greatly beneficial to professionals working with bodies such as INTERPOL, the UN and other international organisations, as well as non-government organisations such as TRAFFIC, Greenpeace, WWF, IUCN and Sea Shepherd.
Critical Acclaim
‘The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime offers an outstanding, inspiring and very comprehensive account of the state-of-the-art of green criminology. A must-read for sociologists, criminologists, social scientists, and all people who are concerned with environmental harms, crimes, and injustices, and thinking about responses to them.’
– Anna Di Ronco, University of Bologna, Italy
‘If the victory of capital goes hand-in-hand with the ruination of the planet, then this volume is a chronicle of the “wins” of the former and the “losses” of the latter. But the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime is also an innovative playbook, and with Rob White’s balanced team of seasoned and emerging scholars, there are reasons for optimism.’
– Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
– Anna Di Ronco, University of Bologna, Italy
‘If the victory of capital goes hand-in-hand with the ruination of the planet, then this volume is a chronicle of the “wins” of the former and the “losses” of the latter. But the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime is also an innovative playbook, and with Rob White’s balanced team of seasoned and emerging scholars, there are reasons for optimism.’
– Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Contents
Contents
1 Thinking about
environmental crime 1
Rob White
PART I THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND
APPROACHES
2 Astro-green criminology
and environmental harms 8
Jack A. Lampkin and Noriyoshi
Takemura
3 Colonialism and
environmental violence 14
David R. Goyes
4 Conservation justice 22
Aalyana R. Green
5 Ecocide 30
Peter Stoett
6 Economics and
environmental harm 35
Joel Maddock-James
7 Feminist political ecology
of wildlife crime 42
Aalyana R. Green
8 Environmental harm 49
Mark Hamilton
9 Gender and environmental crime 55
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz
10 News framing of
environmental crime 63
Michael Smith
11 Rights of nature and wild law 67
Jack A. Lampkin
12 Speciesism 72
Brandon Rochester
PART II CRIMES OF EXTRACTION
13 Illegal hunting and shooting 80
Matthew Box, Kyle Mulrooney
and Alistair Harkness
14 Illegal mining 88
Daan van Uhm
15 Illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing 94
Monica Pons Hernandez
16 Poaching 99
Delon Omrow
17 Water crimes 105
Sharareh Abtahi
18 Water theft 114
Alexander Baird
19 Wildlife trafficking 120
Michelle Anagnostou
PART III CRIMES OF
CONTAMINATION
20 Air pollution 128
Angus Nurse
21 Fast fashion 133
Ash Barnes and Chelsea Hickman
22 Illicit waste trafficking 138
Toine Spapens
23 Space junk 144
Jack A. Lampkin and Nigel South
24 Toxic legacy of the military 149
Lily Rubino
PART IV CRIMES OF USE AND
MODIFICATION
25 Animal abuse in wildlife
crime and conservation 160
Ragnhild Sollund
26 Climate change and
environmental crimes 168
Rob White
27 Food crime 174
Ekaterina Gladkova
28 Genetically modified organisms 182
Lorenzo Natali and Reece Walters
29 Online environmental crimes 188
Delon Omrow
PART V ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
AND VICTIMISATION
30 Conservation colonisation 195
Aalayna R. Green
31 Environmental justice 203
Melissa Jarrell Ozymy and
Joshua Ozymy
32 Environmental racism 210
Lily Rubino and Alexandra Lebron
33 Non-human animal victimology 218
Melanie Flynn
34 Environmental victimisation 227
Lorenzo Natali and Marília De
Nardin Budó
35 Indigenous people and
environmental crime 233
Alexandra Lebron
PART VI OFFENDERS AND
PERPETRATORS
36 Agriculture 243
Kyle Mulrooney, Alistair
Harkness and Matthew Box
37 Biopiracy and bioprospecting 249
David R. Goyes and Nigel South
38 Corporate environmental crime 255
Angus North
39 Organised environmental crime 260
Daan van Uhm
40 Organised crime groups
and networks 268
Michelle Anagnostou
41 State–corporate crime and
the environment 275
Lieselot Bisschop, Karin van
Wingerde, Abby Muricho
Onencan and Sammie Verbeek
PART VII COMBATTING ENVIRONMENTAL
CRIME
42 Community responses to
illegal wildlife trade 283
Annette Hübschle
43 Disrupting environmental crime 291
Rob White and Stoyan Barrett
44 Environmental activism 296
Gary R. Potter
45 Environmental courts 304
Mark Hamilton
46 Environmental forensics 311
Michelangelo Casali and
Lorenzo Natali
47 Environmental law and
transgression 317
Melissa Jarrel Ozymy and
Joshua Ozymy
48 Environmental law enforcement 325
Toine Spapens
49 Environmental restorative justice 333
Mark Hamilton
50 Non-speciesist criminology 339
Cassie Pederesen
51 Preventing illegal fishing 346
Alistair Harkness, Matthew Box
and Kyle Mulrooney
1 Thinking about
environmental crime 1
Rob White
PART I THEORIES, CONCEPTS AND
APPROACHES
2 Astro-green criminology
and environmental harms 8
Jack A. Lampkin and Noriyoshi
Takemura
3 Colonialism and
environmental violence 14
David R. Goyes
4 Conservation justice 22
Aalyana R. Green
5 Ecocide 30
Peter Stoett
6 Economics and
environmental harm 35
Joel Maddock-James
7 Feminist political ecology
of wildlife crime 42
Aalyana R. Green
8 Environmental harm 49
Mark Hamilton
9 Gender and environmental crime 55
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz
10 News framing of
environmental crime 63
Michael Smith
11 Rights of nature and wild law 67
Jack A. Lampkin
12 Speciesism 72
Brandon Rochester
PART II CRIMES OF EXTRACTION
13 Illegal hunting and shooting 80
Matthew Box, Kyle Mulrooney
and Alistair Harkness
14 Illegal mining 88
Daan van Uhm
15 Illegal, unreported and
unregulated fishing 94
Monica Pons Hernandez
16 Poaching 99
Delon Omrow
17 Water crimes 105
Sharareh Abtahi
18 Water theft 114
Alexander Baird
19 Wildlife trafficking 120
Michelle Anagnostou
PART III CRIMES OF
CONTAMINATION
20 Air pollution 128
Angus Nurse
21 Fast fashion 133
Ash Barnes and Chelsea Hickman
22 Illicit waste trafficking 138
Toine Spapens
23 Space junk 144
Jack A. Lampkin and Nigel South
24 Toxic legacy of the military 149
Lily Rubino
PART IV CRIMES OF USE AND
MODIFICATION
25 Animal abuse in wildlife
crime and conservation 160
Ragnhild Sollund
26 Climate change and
environmental crimes 168
Rob White
27 Food crime 174
Ekaterina Gladkova
28 Genetically modified organisms 182
Lorenzo Natali and Reece Walters
29 Online environmental crimes 188
Delon Omrow
PART V ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
AND VICTIMISATION
30 Conservation colonisation 195
Aalayna R. Green
31 Environmental justice 203
Melissa Jarrell Ozymy and
Joshua Ozymy
32 Environmental racism 210
Lily Rubino and Alexandra Lebron
33 Non-human animal victimology 218
Melanie Flynn
34 Environmental victimisation 227
Lorenzo Natali and Marília De
Nardin Budó
35 Indigenous people and
environmental crime 233
Alexandra Lebron
PART VI OFFENDERS AND
PERPETRATORS
36 Agriculture 243
Kyle Mulrooney, Alistair
Harkness and Matthew Box
37 Biopiracy and bioprospecting 249
David R. Goyes and Nigel South
38 Corporate environmental crime 255
Angus North
39 Organised environmental crime 260
Daan van Uhm
40 Organised crime groups
and networks 268
Michelle Anagnostou
41 State–corporate crime and
the environment 275
Lieselot Bisschop, Karin van
Wingerde, Abby Muricho
Onencan and Sammie Verbeek
PART VII COMBATTING ENVIRONMENTAL
CRIME
42 Community responses to
illegal wildlife trade 283
Annette Hübschle
43 Disrupting environmental crime 291
Rob White and Stoyan Barrett
44 Environmental activism 296
Gary R. Potter
45 Environmental courts 304
Mark Hamilton
46 Environmental forensics 311
Michelangelo Casali and
Lorenzo Natali
47 Environmental law and
transgression 317
Melissa Jarrel Ozymy and
Joshua Ozymy
48 Environmental law enforcement 325
Toine Spapens
49 Environmental restorative justice 333
Mark Hamilton
50 Non-speciesist criminology 339
Cassie Pederesen
51 Preventing illegal fishing 346
Alistair Harkness, Matthew Box
and Kyle Mulrooney
