Global environmental harm : criminological perspectives / edited by Rob White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offenses against the environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives. The topics covered in the book are global, regional and local in nature, although in each case there are clear transnational or global dimensions. The book explores topics that provide theoretical, methodological and substantive insights into the nature and dynamics of environmental harm, and the transference of this harm across regions, continents and globally. Specific topics include the criminal nature of global warming, an e

Contents:

Global problems. Globalisation and environmental harm / Rob White ; Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a criminological issue / Tim Boekhout van Solinge ; The global transference of toxic harms / Diane Heckenberg ; Global warming, global crime : a green criminological perspective / Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky

Specific issues. The Canadian-Alberta tar sands : a case study of state-corporate environmental crime / Russell Smandych and Rodney Kueneman ; The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime : a South African criminological investigation / Joe Herbig ; The applicability of crime prevention to problems of environmental harm : a consideration of illicit trade in endangered species / Melanie Wellsmith ; The polluting behaviour of the multinational corporations in China / Yang Shuqin

Alternative visions. The indiscriminate criminalisation of environmentally beneficial activities / Avi Brisman ; The big grey elephants in the backyard of Huelva, Spain / Lorenzo Natali ; The criticality of global environmental crime and the response of chaos criminology / Noriyoshi Takemura ; The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity : transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights / Nigel South.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-03038-X

1-134-03031-2

1-282-55551-0

9786612555510

1-84392-798-5

9781843927983

OCLC:

650060038