Ecoviolence Studies

Human Exploitation and Environmental Crime

Peter Stoett, Delon Omrow

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009341615
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Ecoviolence, defined broadly as the intersection between human-human exploitation and the destruction of nature, is one of the defining features of our time. This book collects ten case studies examining the intersection between the exploitation of human beings and environmental harm. Topics discussed include the wildlife trade, ecoviolence at sea, natural resource exploitation in Latin America and Africa, human trafficking induced by extreme weather events, climate change-related language death, and the confluence of drug cartels and environmental destruction. The book argues that Ecoviolence Studies has emerged as an expanded, multidisciplinary field in its own right, and that policy responses and the search for environmental and social justice should reflect accumulated knowledge in this area. It is an insightful volume for researchers and graduate students working in green criminology, Earth system governance, environmental politics, human rights, environmental and international law, and related areas.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1 Ecoviolence Studies and Human Security
• 2 The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
• 3 Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
• 4 Ecoviolence at Sea
• 5 There Will Be Blood: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector
• 6 Artisanal Gold Mining in Uganda: Towards Formalization as Remediation of Dignity and Rights
• 7 Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration*
• 8 Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
• 9 Sea of Cortez Region: Crime and Ecosystem Crossroads
• 10 Minority Languages as Collateral Damage in the Climate Crisis: The Incidental Result of Ecoviolence on Y Gymraeg/Welsh Language
• Index