Environmental Harm: An Eco-Justice Perspective

✍ Scribed by Rob White

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This unique 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. The book evaluates three interconnected justice-related approaches to environmental harm: environmental justice (humans), ecological justice (the environment) and species justice (non-human animals). It provides a critical assessment of environmental harm by interrogating key concepts and exploring how activists and social movements engage in the pursuit of justice. It concludes by describing the tensions between the different approaches and the importance of developing an eco-justice framework that to some extent can reconcile these differences. Using empirical evidence built on theoretical foundations with examples and illustrations from many national contexts, ‘Environmental harm’ will be of interest to students and academics in criminology, sociology, law, geography, environmental studies, philosophy and social policy all over the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Environmental Harm
Contents
List of tables, figures and boxes
Tables
Figure
Boxes
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Environmental harm and social harm approaches
Green criminology and environmental harm
An eco-justice perspective
Conflicting views and moral dilemmas
1. Justice-based approaches to environmental harm
Introduction
Components of an eco-justice perspective
Contentious concepts
Key questions about harm
The moral calculus: weighing up the harm
Conclusion
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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?
Index