Global environmental harm : criminological perspectives / / edited by Rob White

• Pubblicazione: Cullompton, Devon ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.1/8
• Soggetto topico: Offenses against the environment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WhiteR. D <1956-> (Robert Douglas)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Global problems. Globalisation and environmental harm / Rob White ; Equatorial deforestation as a harmful practice and a criminological issue / Tim Boekhout van Solinge ; The global transference of toxic harms / Diane Heckenberg ; Global warming, global crime : a green criminological perspective / Michael J. Lynch and Paul B. Stretesky -- Specific issues. The Canadian-Alberta tar sands : a case study of state-corporate environmental crime / Russell Smandych and Rodney Kueneman ; The illegal reptile trade as a form of conservation crime : a South African criminological investigation / Joe Herbig ; The applicability of crime prevention to problems of environmental harm : a consideration of illicit trade in endangered species / Melanie Wellsmith ; The polluting behaviour of the multinational corporations in China / Yang Shuqin -- Alternative visions. The indiscriminate criminalisation of environmentally beneficial activities / Avi Brisman ; The big grey elephants in the backyard of Huelva, Spain / Lorenzo Natali ; The criticality of global environmental crime and the response of chaos criminology / Noriyoshi Takemura ; The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity : transnational crime, social exclusion, victims and rights / Nigel South.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together original cutting edge work that deals with global environmental harm from a wide variety of geographical and critical perspectives. The topics covered in the book are global, regional and local in nature, although in each case there are clear transnational or global dimensions. The book explores topics that provide theoretical, methodological and substantive insights into the nature and dynamics of environmental harm, and the transference of this harm across regions, continents and globally. Specific topics include the criminal nature of global warming, an e
• Titolo autorizzato: Global environmental harm
• ISBN: 1-134-03031-2; 1-282-55551-0; 9786612555510; 1-84392-798-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456488603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II