Environmental harm

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4473-0041-0
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

This unique study of social harm offers a systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm.

The book evaluates three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (the environment) and species justice (non-human animals). It provides a critical assessment of environmental harm by interrogating key concepts and exploring how activists and social movements engage in the pursuit of justice. It concludes by describing the tensions between the different approaches and the importance of developing an eco-justice framework that to some extent can reconcile these differences.

Using empirical evidence built on theoretical foundations with examples and illustrations from many national contexts, ‘Environmental harm’ will be of interest to students and academics in criminology, sociology, law, geography, environmental studies, philosophy and social policy all over the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction;

Justice-based approaches to environmental harm;

Environmental justice and harm to humans;

Conservation, ecological justice and harm to nature;

Species justice and harm to animals;

Toward eco-justice for all

Über Autor(innen)

White, Rob
Rob White, Emeritus University of New England and Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia, is pioneering the field of green criminology internationally, having published a number of books on the topic. His research examines three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: Environmental justice, Ecological justice, and Species justice.

Rob White is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is author of Transnational Environmental Crime: Toward an eco-global criminology (2011) and Crimes Against Nature (2008), as well as editor of Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective (2012), Global Environmental Harm (2010) and Environmental Crime: A Reader (2009).