Environmental harm : an eco-justice perspective /

White, R. D. 1956-

Environmental harm : an eco-justice perspective / Rob White. - 1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) : illustrations - Studies in social harm. . - Studies in social harm. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental harm and social harm approaches -- Green criminology and environmental harm -- eco-justice perspective -- Conflicting views and moral dilemmas -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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? Machine generated contents note: One. Two. Three. Four. Five.

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.


English.

9781447300427 (electronic bk.) 1447300424 (electronic bk.) 1299923089 9781299923089 1447307852 9781447307853

22573/ctt8hhgxw JSTOR


Offenses against the environment.
Liability for environmental damages.
Environmental justice.
Criminology.
Justice, Administration of.
Criminology
Crimes contre l'environnement.
Responsabilité pour dommages à l'environnement.
Justice environnementale.
Criminologie.
criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology.
Criminology.
Environmental justice.
Justice, Administration of.
Liability for environmental damages.
Offenses against the environment.


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