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Environmental Crime in Latin America

Environmental Crime in Latin America
Author: David Rodríguez Goyes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137557052

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 international experts on not only green criminology, but also social justice, political ecology and sociology. An engaging and thought-provoking work, this book will be an essential text for anyone interested in current issues in environmental crime.

Nonhuman Primate Welfare

Nonhuman Primate Welfare
Author: Lauren M. Robinson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2023-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030827089

This volume reviews the broad topic of welfare in nonhuman primates under human care. Chapters detail the history of primates in captivity, ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of nonhuman primates as entertainment or in research, the different approaches that welfare are measured, and how housing, enrichment, and other conditions can foster or degrade welfare. Since humans began keeping nonhuman primates we have made vast strides in understanding their cognitive abilities, strong social bonds, vibrant personalities, and their capacity for joy and suffering. With an increasing number of countries banning the use of great apes in biomedical research, the welfare of primates in zoos and research facilities has gained increasing attention. This interdisciplinary work features contributors from many of the fields involved and those on both sides of the issue, thus providing an exhaustive overview of primate welfare. Readers from animal welfare science, primatology, animal testing, veterinary medicine, conservation to ethics and legislation will find this an important account.

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation
Author: Elizabeth Jane Macpherson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108473067

A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.

Water and Territory in Latin America

Water and Territory in Latin America
Author: Vladimir Arana
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-05-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319303430

This book focuses in the current situation of water resources, water supply and sanitation, and population movement in Latin America. It identifies new phenomena and challenges that will put more pressure on water resources in the near future and that will create important socioeconomic constraints in population and their governments. This volume offers an evaluation of water resources availability and consumption, water supply and sanitation shortages, management models and population growth and territory occupation trends in eighteen Latin American countries. Also a set of recommendations, policy proposals and projects is outlined.

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction

Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction
Author: Ernesto Sánchez Triana
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368885

Environmental degradation is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and decreased productivity. Urban and indoor air pollution; inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; natural disasters (mainly floods and landslides); and land degradation are the environmental problems associated with the highest social and economic costs, falling most heavily on vulnerable people, especially poor children under five years old. This book begins by exploring institutional change and environmental priorities in Colombia over the past 50 years, a time of substantial progress in environmental protection and rapid transition from a largely rural to a highly urbanised economy. Part 2 assesses the burden of disease rooted in inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene; poor air quality; and natural disasters; and the environmental management practices to reduce that burden. A discussion of the environmental costs of rapid and unplanned urbanisation is also included. Part 3 assesses the sustainable management of Colombia's rich endowment of natural resources.

The Crimes of Wildlife Trafficking

The Crimes of Wildlife Trafficking
Author: Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317008588

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk. Focusing on illegal trafficking, the book also discusses the harmful aspects of the trade and trafficking which is taking place in concordance with laws and regulations. Drawing on the findings of empirical research from Norway and Colombia, the study discusses how this global, transnational trend is addressed, and features of the trade and the ways in which it is controlled in the two case study locations. It also explores the motives driving the trade, and the consequences in terms of animal abuse and environmental harm. The book discusses whether internationally agreed measures, such as international conventions, actually help prevent the trade. Possible ways to address the harms of wildlife trade are considered, including a total ban. The work draws on a green criminology and eco feminist theoretical framework to provide a broad perspective on concepts such as harm, animal rights, species justice and speciesism.