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Introduction: Green Theories of Justice and Political Economy

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Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice

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The world system, the treadmill of production, Gaia, metabolic rift, planetary boundaries, the human ecological footprint, political economy—these are terms that have not been widely employed within green criminology in the analysis of green crime, environmental law and eco-justice issues. They are, however, theories and phrases employed in the environmental sociology and ecological Marxist literatures and in natural science literature to address problems related to discussions exposing the problem of ecological destruction, the extent of ecological destruction and its measurement, and the state of the world’s ecosystem(s), and also to explanations for why ecological destruction occurs. Here, we make extensive use of these terms to develop a green criminological theory of eco-justice—which we present in segments—that draws on political economic, environmental sociological and scientific explanations of contemporary environmental crises.

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  2. Department of Sociology, Stillwater, OK, USA

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  3. Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

    Paul B. Stretesky

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Lynch, M.J., Long, M.A., Stretesky, P.B. (2019). Introduction: Green Theories of Justice and Political Economy. In: Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28573-9_1

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