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Environmental harm : an eco-justice perspective /

This 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : The Policy Press, 2013.
Colección:Studies in social harm.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Environmental harm and social harm approaches
  • Green criminology and environmental harm
  • eco-justice perspective
  • Conflicting views and moral dilemmas
  • One. Justice-based approaches to environmental harm
  • Introduction
  • Components of an eco-justice perspective
  • Contentious concepts
  • Key questions about harm
  • moral calculus: weighing up the harm
  • Conclusion
  • Two. Environmental justice and harm to humans
  • Introduction
  • Contentious concepts: environmental justice
  • Social patterns of harm and risk
  • Harm, place and the local
  • Transborder conflicts over land
  • Conclusion: measuring the value of human life
  • Three. Conservation, ecological justice and harm to nature
  • Introduction
  • Contentious concepts: ecological justice
  • Transforming nature
  • Land, property and the global commons
  • Conservationism and social division
  • Conclusion: measuring the value of nature
  • Four. Species justice and harm to animals
  • Introduction
  • Contentious concepts: species justice
  • Categorising animals
  • Crime, criminology and animals
  • Animals, particular species and individuals
  • Conclusion: measuring the value of animals
  • Five. Toward eco-justice for all
  • Introduction
  • Contentious concepts: eco-justice
  • Nature, species and culture
  • Socio-economic context of environmental harm
  • Eco-justice in practice
  • Conclusion: where to from here?