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Environmental Crime in Latin America
. Ed(S): Brisman, Avi; South, Professor Nigel
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Description for Environmental Crime in Latin America
Hardback. Editor(s): Brisman, Avi; South, Professor Nigel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 308 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKV; RND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the “theft of nature” and the “poisoning of the land” in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining.
An interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a wide range of international experts on not only green criminology, but also social justice, political ecology and ... Read more
This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the “theft of nature” and the “poisoning of the land” in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining.
An interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a wide range of international experts on not only green criminology, but also social justice, political ecology and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
Number of Pages
313
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137557049
SKU
V9781137557049
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About . Ed(S): Brisman, Avi; South, Professor Nigel
David Rodríguez Goyes is a PhD candidate at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, at the University of Oslo, Norway, and a lecturer at the Antonio Nariño University, Colombia. Hanneke Mol is a Research Fellow in Environmental Justice at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ... Read more
Reviews for Environmental Crime in Latin America
“This book provides much-needed breadth and depth to the field of green criminology, which aims to challenge and broaden how we see crimes against the environment, which stand out from other crimes by their extent over both places and time – affecting lands and generations far beyond specific violations. Nowhere is the gap between a crime’s impact and its punishment ... Read more