Environmental Justice and Ethics
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A New Environmental Ethics
The Next Millennium for Life on Earth
No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it. A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear,...
Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
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A Theory of Intergenerational Justice
The appeal to 'our obligations to future generations' is one of the most forceful, emotional and effective arguments available to politicians and citizens and is the cornerstone of all modern policies aimed at sustainable development. Yet, the exact nature and extent of these obligations are...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse
Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights
From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and...
To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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Energy Security, Inequality and Justice
What are the social and ethical implications of current patterns of energy production and use, and how can these be made more equitable, secure and sustainble? To answer this question, this book connects the discussion of energy policy and technology with notions of rights, happiness, duties,...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Environmental Justice
Concepts, Evidence and Politics
Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises questions about how the environment impacts on different people’s lives. Does pollution follow the poor? Are some...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Fairness and Justice in Environmental Decision-Making
Water under the Bridge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
By crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uniquely connects theories of justice with peoples lived experience within social conflicts over water sharing arrangements. These types of social problem are often considered intractable due to long-standing institutional arrangements and water-use...
To Be Published October 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Green Criminology
An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm
Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and ‘crimes against nature’ has become an increasingly popular area of study amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Green Criminology
An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm
Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and ‘crimes against nature’ has become an increasingly popular area of study amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Green Cultural Criminology
Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
Over the last two decades, "green criminology" has emerged as a unique area of study, bringing together criminologists possessing a wide range of research interests and varying theoretical orientations, spanning the micro to the macro, from work on individual-level environmental crimes to business/...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability
Ethics in Sustainability Indexes
Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability. This book gives a theoretical and practical demonstration of how...
To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge
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The Justices and Injustices of Ecosystem Services
Humankind benefits from a multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, and collectively these benefits are known as ecosystem services. Interest in this topic has grown exponentially over the last decade, as biologists and economists have tried to quantify these benefits to...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Ethics
The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethics meta-ethics perspectives from outside ethics ethical perspectives morality...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Treadmill of Crime
Political Economy and Green Criminology
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime...
To Be Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge
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The World of Wal-Mart
Discounting the American Dream
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Transnational Environmental Crime
Toward an Eco-global Criminology
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of eco-global criminology. Eco-global criminology refers to a criminological approach that is informed by ecological considerations and by a critical analysis that is global in scale and perspective. Based upon eco-justice conceptions...
Published May 9th 2011 by Willan
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The Treadmill of Crime
Political Economy and Green Criminology
Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology
Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime...
To Be Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge
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Victims of Environmental Harm
Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of...
Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge