Environmental Crime in Latin America : The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

1. Introduction.- PART I. SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE THEFT OF NATURE.- 2. The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide.- 3. The Archipelago of Chiloe and the Uncertain Contours of its Future.- 4. Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South.- 5. Mining in Colombia.- PART II. THE TAKE OVER OF LAND AND THE PLUNDERING OF ITS PRODUCTS.- 6. Global Pollution, Multinational Oil Companies and State Power.- 7. A Decade of Social and Environmental Mobilization Against Mega-Mining in Chubut, Argentinian Patagonia.- 8. Agro-Industry Expansion through 'Strategic Alliances'.- 9. The Injustices of Policing, Law and Multinational Monopolisation in the Privatisation of Natural Diversity.- PART III. THE SUBJUGATION OF NON-HUMAN ANIMALS.- 10. The Use and Abuse of Animals in Wildlife Trafficking in Colombia.- 11. Wildlife Traffic king in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil.- <12. Biomedical Research vs. Biodiversity Conservation in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon