Biodiversity of Ciliates and their Symbionts

In the past three decades a stream of criminological inquiry has emerged which explores measures and theorizes crimes and harms to the environment at the micro- mezzo- and macro-levels. This green criminology as it has come to be known has widened the criminological gaze to consider crimes and harms committed against air land (from forests to wetlands) nonhuman animals and water in local regional national and international areas or arenas. Accordingly green criminology has endeavored to understand the causes and consequences of air and water pollution biodiversity loss climate change corporate environmental crime (e.g. illegal waste disposal) food production and distribution resource extraction and exploitation and wildlife trade and trafficking while also exploring potential responses to these issues. This book seeks to introduce the green criminological perspective to a broader social science audience. Recognizing that green criminology is not the first social science to explore the phenomena and harms at the intersections of humanity and ecology this book offers an introduction to some of the unique insights developed over nearly 30 years of green criminological thought and scholarship to students professors researchers and practitioners working in the fields of anthropology economics environmental humanities environmental sociology geography history and political ecology. This book contains contributions from researchers in green criminology from around the world including early- and mid-career scholars as well as more established voices in the field-all of whom are dedicated to exposing understanding and ultimately hoping to thwart further environmental degradation and despoliation.