Environmental Crime in Latin America : The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land /

This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Rodr guez Goyes, David; Mol, Hanneke; Brisman, Avi; South, Nigel
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55705-6
Summary: This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the theft of nature and the poisoning of the land in Latin America through and from processes of agro-industry expansion, biopiracy, legal and illegal trafficking of free-born non-human animals, and mining. An interdisciplinary study, this collection draws on research from a wide range of interna
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIII, 313 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781137557056
CLC: D917