In recent decades, environmental crime has become one of the largest criminal activities in the world with disastrous impacts on the environment, and enormous costs for future generations. The environmental impact is illustrated by the rapid disappearance of rainforests, large-scale pollution, climate change, and the mass extinction of species. Environmental crime has become a global issue, and thus needs to be anticipated in social and scientific thinking. The studies of green criminology, environmental sociology, environmental law, political ecology, and conservation studies, among other disciplines, are increasingly engaged with crimes and harms against the environment. Bringing together and combining these approaches in this edited volume is crucial to understand and reflect on the environmental challenges that we face in the 21st century.

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Speaks to scholars in the social sciences and law and to professionals working in environmental crime enforcement Offers a timely and global view on ecojustice, crime and trafficking Reflects key topics from the UN's World Wildlife Crime Report 2024

Autorentext
Daan van Uhm is Professor of Environmental Crime at Open University and Associate Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Dina Siegel is Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Global Green Crime.- 2.- Planetary Health and Eco-Justice: Contributions from Green, Blue, Southern, Cultural and Decolonial Criminologies.- 3. Ecojustice and Remedying Environmental Harm.- 4.-Conceptualizing ecocide: an interdisciplinary approach.- 5.- Blue Crimes in the Paraguay-Paraná 'Waterway': linking Cocaine, Agro-Exports and Wetland Fires in Argentina.- 6.- Responsibility of Mexico as an active agent in the trade of wild animals for pets.- 7.- Knowledge insecurity facilitates wildlife trade in the United States.- 8.- Poaching Trends and Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights From a Private Nature Reserve in South Africa.- 9.- Trafficking of women and girls in climate migration displacement.- 10. Sport or crime? Camel races.- 11.- Customary Illegality and Moral Economies in the Viper Trade.- 12.- Wildlife Trafficking in Spain: Causes, Consequences and Future Considerations.- 13. The pet trade in Europe.- 14.- Green-collar crimes and brown bear trafficking in Europe.- 15.- From the Sargasso Sea to the River Severn: A photovoice journey examining harm toward the European eel.- 16. Environmental crimes and war time: understanding the means of the warfare and its consequences for the nature.- 17.- Green crimes, illicit economies and the emergence of a novel Mekong Crime-Conflict Complex.- 18. What mercy? A study of mercy release in Hong Kong.- 19. A source of disease, health, or both? Wildlife consumption in China after the emergence of COVID-19.- 20. Future Challenges for Eco-justice.