"Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice is an especially useful addition to the growing literature on green criminology. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (P. Beirne, Choice, Vol. 57 (11), 2020)
Chapter 1: Introduction: Green Theories of Justice and Political Economy
Chapter 2: Connecting Ecological Decline and Eco-Justice
Chapter 3: Eco-Justice and an Orientation toward the Ecosystem
Chapter 4: Human Social & Ecological Justice in the Global World: Capitalist System and the Treadmill of Production
Chapter 5: Unsustainable Economic Development and Nonhuman Ecological Justice
Chapter 6: Gaia and a Green Theory of Justice
Chapter 7: Metabolic Rift and Eco-justice
Chapter 8: Political Economy, Food and Eco-justice
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Michael J. Lynch is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Associated Faculty at The Patel School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida, USA.
Michael A. Long is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, USA.
Paul B. Stretesky is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and Associated Faculty in the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.
This book offers an alternative analysis of the various theories and dimensions of green and environmental justice which are rooted in political economy. Much green criminological literature side-lines political economic theoretical insights, and therefore with this this work the authors enrich the field by vigorously exploring such perspectives. It engages with a number of studies relevant to a political economic approach to justice in order to make two key arguments: that capitalism has produced profound ecological injustices and that the concept of ecological justice (human and ecological rights) itself needs critiquing. Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice is a timely text which urges the field to revisit its radical roots in social justice while broadening its disciplinary horizons to include a meaningful analysis of political economy and its role in producing and responding to environmental harm and injustice.