Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Hazardous Waste and Pollution pp 101–121Cite as

Is It a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

Abstract

We argue in this chapter for a political economic approach to the study of global ecological crimes. Green criminological studies often employ case-study approaches that help explain a particular green crime; however, these studies lack a coherent theoretical basis. Based on ecological Marxism and treadmill of production (ToP) approaches, we outline a theoretical approach for green criminology that focuses on crimes of ecological disorganization—that is, green harms that are the result of organizing the productive forces of the economy in a manner that is consistent with capitalism. We conclude that, to truly understand and remedy green harms, a focus on political economy is necessary.

© The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    It is commonplace among radical criminologists to refer to mainstream or traditional forms of criminology—that is, to bureaucratic criminology and its focus on street offenders and their control—as orthodox criminology (see Lynch and Michalowski 2006). This is similar to the distinction made between orthodox and radical economics.

  2. 2.

    We do not diminish the study of street crime. We thank a reviewer for pointing out that similar structural factors are likely related to both street crime and green crime and that both are worthy of study.

  3. 3.

    A reviewer raised a concern about our use of the word ‘crime’ in the context of ecological disorganization. We use both ‘crime’ and ‘harms’ to refer to the effects of ecological disorganization. Hillyard and Tombs (2005, 2007) make the case that researchers should keep the concepts of crime and harm separate. We include both the terms together to indicate that ecological disorganization creates harm and is sometimes defined as criminal. We also believe that referring to ecological and environmental ‘crime’ is important because it helps make the case that studies of this type should be within the purview of the discipline of criminology. We expand on the discussion of ecological harm and crime in the discussion section.

  4. 4.

    The same could be said about political divisions within nations.

  5. 5.

    Exceptions to this rule exist.

References

  • Agnew, R. (2012). Dire forecast: A theoretical model of the impact of climate change on crime. Theoretical Criminology, 16, 21–42.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Austin, R., & Kim, Y. (1999). Educational development and homicide in Sub-Saharan Africa. Homicide Studies, 3, 78–98.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Beirne, P. (1999). For a nonspeciesist criminology: Animal abuse as an object of study. Criminology, 37, 117–148.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Beirne, P. (2009). Confronting animal abuse: Law, criminology, and human-animal relationships. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bennear, L. (2008). What do we really know: The effect of reporting thresholds on inference using environmental right-to-know data. Regulation and Governance, 2, 293–315.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bennett, R. (1991). Development and crime: A cross-national time series analysis of competing models. Sociological Quarterly, 32, 343–363.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bensel, R. (2000). The political economy of American industrialization, 1877–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Borneman, J., & Triplett, E. (1997). Molecular microbial diversity in soils from eastern Amazonia: Evidence for unusual microorganisms and microbial population shifts associated with deforestation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 63, 2647–2653.

    Google Scholar 

  • Burgess, R., Hansen, M., Olken, B., Potapov, P., & Sieber, S. (2012). The political economy of deforestation in the tropics. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127, 1707–1754.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Burkett, P. (2006). Marxism and ecological economics: Toward a red and green political economy. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butchart, S., Stattersfield, A., Bennun, L., Shutes, S., Akqakaya, H., Baillie, J., Stuart, S., Hilton-Taylor, C., & Mace, G. (2004). Measuring global trends in the status of biodiversity: Red list indices for birds. PLoS Biology, 2, e383–e417.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • California Department of Education. (2013). Lead in paint. www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/hs/leadpaint.asp. Accessed 12 March 2012.

  • Carson, R. (1962). Silent spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, B., & Jorgenson, A. (2012). The treadmill of destruction and the environmental impacts of militaries. Sociology Compass, 6, 557–569.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, B., Jorgenson, A., & Kentor, J. (2010). Militarization and energy consumption. International Journal of Sociology, 40, 23–43.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, B., Jorgenson, A., & Auerbach, D. (2012). Up in smoke: The human ecology and political economy of coal consumption. Organization & Environment, 25, 452–469.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Coe, M., Costa, M., & Soares-Filho, B. (2009). The influence of historical and potential future deforestation on the stream flow of the Amazon river-land surface processes and atmospheric feedbacks. Journal of Hydrology, 369, 165–174.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Colborn, T., Dumanoski, D., & Myers, J. (1996). Our stolen future. New York: Plume.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cramer, W., Bondeau, A., Schaphoff, S., Lucht, W., Smith, B., & Sitch, S. (2004). Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: Impacts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change and rate of deforestation. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 359, 331–343.

    Google Scholar 

  • de Marchi, S., & Hamilton, J. (2006). Assessing the accuracy of self-reported data: An Evaluation of the toxics release inventory. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 32, 57–76.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Del Olmo, R. (1998). The ecological impact of illicit drug cultivation and crop eradication programs in Latin America. Theoretical Criminology, 2, 269–278.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ehrhardt-Martinez, K., Crenshaw, E., & Jenkins, C. (2002). Deforestation and the environmental kuznets curve: A cross-national investigation of intervening mechanisms. Social Science Quarterly, 83, 226–243.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ellefsen, R., Sollund, R., & Larsen, G. (Eds.). (2012). Eco-global crimes contemporary problems and future challenges. Farnham: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2013a). Lead in drinking water. http://water.epa.gov/drink/info/lead/index.cfm. Accessed 15 March 2012.

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2013b). National priorities list. www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/index.htm. Accessed 15 March 2012.

  • Fall, S., Niyogi, D., Gluhovsky, A., Pielke, R., Kalnay, E., & Rochon, G. (2010). Impacts of land use land cover on temperature trends over the continental United States: Assessment using the North American regional reanalysis. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 1980–1993.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foster, J. (2000). Marx’s ecology: Materialism and nature. New York: New York University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foster, J. (2012). The planetary rift and the new human exemptionalism: A political-economic critique of ecological modernization theory. Organization & Environment, 25, 211–237.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foster, J., & Burkett, P. (2008). Classical marxism and the second law of thermodynamics: Marx/Engels, the heat death of the universe hypothesis, and the origins of ecological economics. Organization & Environment, 21, 3–37.

    Google Scholar 

  • Foster, J., Clark, B., & York, R. (2010). The ecological rift: Capitalism’s war on the earth. New York: Monthly Review Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gereffi, G. (1999). A commodity chains framework for analyzing global industries, Institute of Development Studies, 1999, Background Notes for Workshop on Spreading the Gains from Globalisation. http://eco.ieu.edu.tr/wp-content/Gereffi_CommodityChains99.pdf. Accessed 1 April 2012.

  • Gilbert, S., & Weiss, B. (2006). A rationale for lowering the blood lead action level from 10-2 pg/dL. NeuroToxicology, 27, 693–701.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gould, K., Pellow, D., & Schnaiberg, A. (2008). The treadmill of production: Injustice & unsustainability in the global economy. Boulder: Paradigm.

    Google Scholar 

  • Griffith, J., Stehman, S., & Loveland, T. (2003). Landscape trends in mid-atlantic and southeastern United States ecoregions. Environmental Management, 32, 572–588.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hall, M. (2013). Victims of environmental harm: Rights, recognition and redress under national and international law. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harding, J. (2003). Historic deforestation and the fate of endemic invertebrate species in streams. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 37, 333–345.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harvey, C., Medina, A., Sanchez, D., VmcHEz, S., Hernandez, B., Saenz, J., Maes, J., Casanoves, F., & Sinclair, F. (2006). Patterns of animal diversity in different forms of tree cover in agricultural landscapes. Ecological Applications, 16, 1986–1999.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hillyard, P., & Tombs, S. (2005). Beyond Criminology? In P. Hillyard, C. Pantazis, S. Tombs, D. Gordon, & D. Dorling (Eds.), Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime. Sheffield: Crime and Society Foundation.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hillyard, P., & Tombs, S. (2007). From crime to social harm. Crime, Law and Social Change, 48, 9–25.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hubbell, S., He, F., Condit, R., Borda-de-Agua, L., Kellner, J., & ter Steege, H. (2008). How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 11498–11504.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Humphreys, D. (2003). Life protective or carcinogenic challenge? Global forests governance under advanced capitalism. Global Environmental Politics, 3, 40–55.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jarrell, M., Lynch, M., & Stretesky, P. (2013). Green criminology and green victimization. In B. Arrigo & H. Bersot (Eds.), The routledge handbook of international crime and justice studies. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jeffery, C. (1977). Crime prevention through environmental design. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jorgenson, A. (2010). World-economic integration, supply depots, and environmental degradation: A study of ecologically unequal exchange, foreign investment dependence, and deforestation in less developed countries. Critical Sociology, 36, 453–477.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jorgenson, A., & Clark, B. (2011). Societies consuming nature: A panel study of the ecological footprints of nations, 1960–2003. Social Science Research, 40, 226–244.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jorgenson, A., Clark, B., & Kentor, J. (2010). Militarization and the environment: A panel study of carbon dioxide emissions and the ecological footprints of nations, 1970–2000. Global Environmental Politics, 10, 7–29.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jorgenson, A., Clark, B., & Giedraitis, V. (2012). The temporal (in)stability of the carbon dioxide emissions/economic development relationship in central and eastern European nations. Society & Natural Resources, 25, 1182–1192.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kanae, S., Oki, T., & Musiake, K. (2001). Impact of deforestation on regional precipitation over the Indochina peninsula. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2, 51–70.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kovel, J. (2007). The enemy of nature: The end of capitalism or the end of the world? London: Zed Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Landrigan, P., Schechter, C., Lipton, J., Fahs, M., & Schwartz, J. (2002). Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: Estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental disabilities. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110, 721–728.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lawton, R., Nair, U., Pielke, R., Sr., & Welch, R. (2001). Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests. Science, 294, 584–587.

    Google Scholar 

  • Li, Y., & Hewitt, C. (2008). The effect of trade between China and the UK on national and global carbon dioxide emissions. Energy Policy, 36, 1907–1914.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Linstad, H., Asbjornslett, B., & Stromman, A. (2011). Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and cost by shipping at lower speeds. Energy Policy, 39, 3456–3464.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Long, M., Stretesky, P., Lynch, M., & Fenwick, E. (2012). Crime in the coal industry implications for green criminology and treadmill of production. Organization & Environment, 25, 328–346.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lorion, C., & Kennedy, B. (2009). Riparian forest buffers mitigate the effects of deforestation on fish assemblages in tropical headwater streams. Ecological Applications, 19, 468–479.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lovelock, J. (2000). Gaia: A new look at life on Earth. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lovelock, J. (2007). The revenge of gaia: Earth’s climate crisis & the fate of humanity. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lowe, A., Boshier, D., Ward, M., Bacles, C., & Navarro, C. (2005). Genetic resource impacts of habitat loss and degradation: Reconciling empirical evidence and predicted theory for neotropical trees. Heredity, 95, 255–273.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, M. (2013). Reflection on green criminology and its boundaries: comparing environmental and criminal victimization and considering crime from an eco-city perspective. In N. South & A. Brisman (Eds.), The routledge handbook of international crime and justice studies. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, M., & Michalowski, R. (2006). Primer in radical criminology. New York: Criminal Justice Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, M., & Stretesky, P. (2010). Global warming, global crime: A green criminological analysis. In R. White (Ed.), Global environmental harm and the greening of criminology. Devon: Willan Publishing.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, M., McGurrin, D., & Fenwick, M. (2004). Disappearing act: The representation of corporate crime research in criminology journals and textbooks. Journal of Criminal Justice, 32, 389–398.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lynch, M., Burns, R., & Stretesky, P. (2010). Global warming as a state-corporate crime: The politicalization of global warming during the Bush administration. Crime, Law and Social Change, 54, 213–239.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Magdoff, F., & Foster, J. (2011). What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mandel, E. (1990). Karl Marx. In J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, & P. Newman (Eds.), Marxian economics (pp. 1–38). London: MacMillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Markowitz, G., & Rosner, D. (2003). Politicizing science: The case of the Bush administration’s influence on the lead advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control. Journal of Public Health Policy, 24, 105–129.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marx, K. (1974). Capital (Vol. 1). Geneva: International Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Matthews, H., Hendrickson, C., & Horvath, A. (2001). External costs of air emissions from transportation. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 7, 13–17.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mbatu, R. (2010). Deforestation in the Buea-Limbe and Bertoua regions in southern Cameroon (1984–2000): Modernization, world-systems, and neo-malthusian outlook. GeoJournal, 75, 443–458.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McCollister, K., French, M., & Fang, H. (2010). The cost of crime to society: New crime-specific estimates for policy and program evaluation. Drug and Alcohol Dependency, 108, 98–109.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Millerd, F. (2011). The potential impact of climate change on great lakes international shipping. Climatic Change, 104, 629–652.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Needleman, H. (1997). Clamped in a straitjacket: The insertion of lead into gasoline. Environmental Research, 74, 95–103.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Negri, A., Adler, R., Xu, L., & Surratt, J. (2004). The impact of Amazonian deforestation on dry season rainfall. Journal of Climate, 17, 1306–1319.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nicholls, R., Hoozemans, F., & Marchand, M. (1999). Increasing flood risk and wetland losses due to global sea-level rise: Regional and global analyses. Global Environmental Change, 9, S69–S87.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nobre, C., Sellers, P., & Shukla, J. (1991). Amazonian deforestation and regional climate change. Journal of Climate, 4, 957–988.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nurse, A. (2013). Animal harm: Perspectives on why people harm and kill animals. Farnham: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Connor, J. (1973). The fiscal crisis of the state. London: St Martin’s Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quinney, R. (1970). The social reality of crime. Piscataway: Transaction Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ray, D., Nair, U., Lawton, R., Welch, R., & Pielke, R. (2006). Impact of land use on Costa Rican tropical montane cloud forests: Sensitivity of orographic cloud formation to deforestation in the plains. Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, 111, 1–16.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Reece, E. (2006). Lost mountain: A year in the vanishing wilderness. New York: Riverhead Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosner, D., & Markowitz, G. (1985). A “gift of God”? The public health controversy over leaded gasoline during the 1920s. American Journal of Public Health, 75, 344–352.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schnaiberg, A. (1980). The environment: From surplus to scarcity. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Scott, A. (1986). Industrialization and urbanization: A geographical agenda. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 76, 25–37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sebbenn, A., Degen, B., Azevedo, V., Silva, M., Lacerda, A., Ciampi, A., Kanashiro, M., Carneiro, F., Thompson, I., & Loveless, M. (2008). Modelling the long-term impacts of selective logging on genetic diversity and demographic structure of four tropical tree species in the Amazon forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 254, 335–349.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sherman, L., Gartin, P., & Buerger, M. (1989). Hot spots of predatory crime: Routine activities and the criminology of place. Criminology, 27, 27–56.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • South, N. (1998). A green field for criminology? A proposal for a perspective. Theoretical Criminology, 2, 211–233.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Steingraber, S. (1997). Living downstream. New York: Random House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stretesky, P., & Lynch, M. (2002). Environmental hazards and school segregation in Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987–1999. The Sociological Quarterly, 43, 553–573.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stretesky, P., & Lynch, M. (2009). A cross-national study of the association between per capita carbon dioxide emissions and exports to the United States. Social Science Research, 38, 239–250.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stretesky, P., & Lynch, M. (2011). Coal strip mining, mountain top removal and the distribution of environmental violations across the United States, 2002-2008. Landscape Research, 36, 209–230.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stretesky, P., Long, M., & Lynch, M. (2013a). Does environmental enforcement slow the treadmill of production? The relationship between large money penalties and toxic releases within offending corporations. Journal of Crime and Justice, 36, 235–249.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stretesky, P., Long, M., & Lynch, M. (2013b). The treadmill of crime: Political economy and green criminology. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sweeney, B., Bott, T., Jackson, J., Kaplan, L., Newbold, J., Standley, L., Hession, W., & Horwitz, R. (2004). Riparian deforestation, stream narrowing, and loss of stream ecosystem services. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 14132–14137.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van Rompaey, A., Covers, G., & Puttemans, C. (2002). Modelling land use changes and their impact on soil erosion and sediment supply to rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 27, 481–494.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Walters, R. (2010). Toxic atmospheres, air pollution, trade and the politics of regulation. Critical Criminology, 18, 307–323.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wedeen, R. (2009). The lead industry and public health. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 15, 195–201.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Westerhuis, D., Walters, R., & Wyatt, T. (Eds.) (2013). Emerging issues in green criminology: Exploring power, justice and harm. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • White, R. (2011). Transnational environmental crime: Toward an eco-global criminology. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • White, R. (Ed.) (2012). Climate change from a criminological perspective. Berlin: Springer.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Williams, C. (1996a). An environmental victimology. Social Justice, 23, 16–40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, C. (1996b). Environmental victimization and violence. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 1, 191–204.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • York, R., Ergas, C., Rose, E., & Dietz, T. (2011). It’s a material world: Trends in material extraction in China, Indonesia and Japan. Nature and Culture, 2, 103–122.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zedler, J., & Kercher, S. (2005). Wetland resources: Status, trends, ecosystem services, and restorability. Annual Review of Environmental Resources, 30, 39–74.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zhang, H., Henderson-Sellers, A., & McGuffie, K. (1996). Impacts of tropical deforestation. Part I: Process analysis of local climatic change. Journal of Climate, 9, 1497–1517.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zheng, F., He, X., Gao, X., Zhang, C., & Tang, K. (2005). Effects of erosion patterns on nutrient loss following deforestation on the Loess Plateau of China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 108, 85–97.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zilney, L., McGurrin, D., & Zahran, S. (2006). Environmental justice and the role of criminology: An analytic review of 33 years of environmental justice research. Criminal Justice Review, 31, 47–62.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zou, X., Zucca, C., Waide, R., & McDowell, W. (1995). Long-term influence of deforestation on tree species composition and litter dynamics of a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management, 78, 147–157.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zullig, K., & Hendryx, M. (2010). A comparative analysis of health-related quality of life for residents of US counties with and without coal mining. Public Health Reports, 125, 548–555.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Dr. Michael J. Lynch

  2. Department of Social Sciences and Languages, Northumbria University, Lipman Building, NE1 8ST, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Dr. Michael A. Long & Dr. Paul B. Stretesky

  3. Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology Department, Eastern Michigan University, 48197, Ypsilanti, MI, USA

    Dr. Kimberly L. Barrett

Authors
  1. Dr. Michael J. Lynch
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Dr. Michael A. Long
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Dr. Kimberly L. Barrett
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Dr. Paul B. Stretesky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Michael A. Long .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom

    Tanya Wyatt

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 � The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Lynch, M., Long, M., Barrett, K., Stretesky, P. (2016). Is It a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms. In: Wyatt, T. (eds) Hazardous Waste and Pollution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18081-6_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18081-6_7

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-18080-9

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-18081-6

  • eBook Packages: Law and CriminologyLaw and Criminology (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation