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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
