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.
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.
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.
