Environmental Crime In Latin America
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| 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.
| Author | : C. Nellemann |
| Publisher | : UN |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Wildlife trafficking -- Forest crime -- Role of wood and illegal wildlife trade for threat finance.
| Author | : Marcela Torres Wong |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2020-12-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780367483630 |
In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic importance of industries such as mining and oil condition the way that governments implement the right to prior consultation. This book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government and oil and mining companies in Latin America, namely Mexico, Peru and Bolivia. Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book examines the legal, extralegal, illegal as well as political strategies used by the state and extractive companies to avoid undesired results produced by the legalization of the right to prior consultation. It examines the ways in which prior consultation is utilized by powerful indigenous actors to negotiate economic resources with the state and extractive companies, while also showing the ways in which weaker indigenous groups are incapable of engaging in prior consultations in a meaningful way and are therefore left at the mercy of negative ecological impacts. It demonstrates how social mobilization--not prior consultation--is the most effective strategy in preventing extraction from moving forward within ecologically fragile indigenous territories.
| Author | : Rafael Di Tella |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0226791858 |
This title presents a survey of the crime problem in Latin America, which takes a very broad and appropriately reductionist approach to analyse the determinants of the high crime levels, focusing on the negative social conditions in the region, including inequality and poverty, and poor policy design, such as relatively low police presence. The chapters illustrate three channels through which crime might generate poverty, that is, by reducing investment, by introducing assets losses, and by reducing the value of assets remaining in the control of households.
| Author | : Vanda Felbab-Brown |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0190855118 |
Emphasizes the disturbing consequences poaching and trafficking pose globally in terms of both biodiversity and public health
| Author | : Malayna Raftopoulos |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2018-12-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351135619 |
This book focuses on the issues of global environmental injustice and human rights violations and explores the scope and limits of the potential of human rights to influence environmental justice. It offers a multidisciplinary perspective on contemporary development discussions, analysing some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental and human rights practices in Latin America. The contributors examine how the extraction and exploitation of natural resources and the further commodification of nature have affected local communities in the region and how these policies have impacted on the promotion and protection of human rights as communities struggle to defend their rights and territories. The book analyses the emergence of transnational activism in the context of collective action organised around socio-environmental conflicts, the infringement of basic human rights and the emergence of alternative and sometimes conflicting development models. Furthermore, it critically discusses why governments are often willing to override their commitments to sustainability and human rights to promote their development agenda. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The International Journal of Human Rights.
| Author | : Susan L. Smith |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2024-07-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1035309513 |
This Research Handbook thoroughly examines the difficult and rapidly expanding problem of national, transnational, and international environmental crimes, including air and water pollution, unlawful mining and timber harvesting, and transnational trafficking of endangered species. It provides an understanding of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research on these crimes and their legal prosecution.
| Author | : R. Evan Ellis |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2018-03-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1498567975 |
Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to transnational organized crime in Latin America for the student and practitioner. It addresses the geography of illicit activities, including relationships between source, transit, and consumption zones, as well as illicit activities beyond narcotrafficking, such as illegal mining, contraband, human smuggling, and money laundering. It applies a typology of cartels, intermediate groups, gangs, and ideological groups to examine specific criminal organizations and the relationships between them. It makes a comparative assessment of government approaches to combatting transnational organized crime in the region, including discussions of interagency coordination, interdiction, targeting of criminal group leaders, the use of the military in law enforcement, law enforcement reform efforts, prison control, and international cooperation. It concludes by applying these thorough analyses to make concrete recommendations for both Latin American and United States policymakers.
| Author | : Xochitl Bada |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 896 |
| Release | : 2021-04-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0190926589 |
The sociology of Latin America, established in the region over the past eighty years, is a thriving field whose major contributions include dependence theory, world-systems theory, and historical debates on economic development, among others. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America provides research essays that introduce the readers to the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The essays in the Handbook are arranged in eight research subfields in which scholars are currently making significant theoretical and methodological contributions: Sociology of the State, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of Violence and Insecurity. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in Latin American sociology. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection offer a map to and a thematic articulation of central sociological debates that make it a critical resource for those scholars and students eager to understand contemporary sociology in Latin America.
| Author | : Ronald C. Kramer |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2020-04-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1978805586 |
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes climate change from a criminological perspective. Four state-corporate crimes are examined: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission related to the mitigation of emissions; socially organized denial; and climate crimes of empire. The final chapter reviews policies to achieve climate justice.
