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

• Pubblicazione: Farnham ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.1/45
• Soggetto topico: Offenses against the environment; Animal welfare; Criminology - Environmental aspects
• Altri autori: EllefsenRune SollundRagnhild Aslaug <1959-> LarsenGuri
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eco-global crimes
• ISBN: 1-315-57865-4; 1-317-14638-7; 1-317-14637-9; 1-4094-3493-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785880003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Green Criminology