1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462295503321

Titolo

Eco-global crimes [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary problems and future challenges / / edited by Rune Ellefsen, Ragnhild Sollund, Guri Larsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2012

ISBN

1-317-14638-7

1-317-14637-9

1-4094-3493-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Green Criminology

Altri autori (Persone)

EllefsenRune

SollundRagnhild Aslaug <1959->

LarsenGuri

Disciplina

364.1/45

Soggetti

Offenses against the environment

Animal welfare

Criminology - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction to Eco-global Criminology; 1 Introduction; 2 The Foundations of Eco-global Criminology; 3 The Most Serious Crime: Eco-genocide Concepts and Perspectives in Eco-global Criminology; 4 Constructing a Meta-history of Eco-global  Criminology; Part II Speciesism, Animal Abuse and Social Movements; 5 The Rhetorical Making of a Crime Called Speciesism: the Reception of 'Animal Liberation'; 6 Speciesism as Doxic Practice Versus Valuing Difference and Plurality

7 The Ideological Fantasy of Animal Welfare8 Natural Exploitation; 9 Differing Philosophies: Criminalisation and the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty Debate; 10 Green Movements as Threats to Order and Economy; Part III Biodiversity, Environmental and Species Justice; 11 Unlawful Hunting of Large Carnivores in Sweden; 12 Native Nature and Alien Invasions: Battling with Concepts and Plants at Fornebu, Norway;



13 Industrialising Greenland: Government and Transnational Corporations Versus Civil Society?; 14 Environmental Harm: Social Causes and Shifting Legislative Dynamics

15 Enacting Human and Non-human Indigenous: Salmon, Sami and Norwegian Natural Resource ManagementIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides an interdisciplinary anthology to present research and issues from the emerging field of eco-global criminology, also known as green or environmental criminology. International in both perspective and scope, the collection expands the discussions, research and core issues of the field with original contributions from scholars and professionals in the Nordic countries.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458370703321

Titolo

Ethics & international affairs [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / Joel H. Rosenthal, Christian Barry, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-58901-315-8

1-58901-721-8

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Classificazione

89.70

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenthalJoel H. <1960->

BarryChristian

Disciplina

172/.4

Soggetti

International relations - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION; PART TWO: GROUNDS FOR INTERVENTION; PART THREE: GOVERNANCE, LAW, AND MEMBERSHIP; PART FOUR: GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of some of the best contemporary scholarship in ethics and international affairs explores the connection between moral



traditions and decision making during and after the Cold War. Each author relates the timeless insights of philosophy and our collective historical experience to the hard choices of our own age. Building on the pioneering work of earlier writers in the 1970's and 1980's, this book offers organizing principles for the study of the field. This second edition has been expanded from seventeen to twenty-two essays, of which eleven are new. It includes new chapters on t