Environmental Crime in Latin America

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land in Latin America

Chapter 2 The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide

Chapter 3 The Archipelago of Chiloé and the Uncertain Contours of its Future: Coloniality, New Extractivism and Political-Social Re-vindication of Existence

Chapter 4 Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South: Crimes of the Powerful and Peoples’ Resistance

Chapter 5 Mining in Colombia: Tracing the Harm of Neoliberal Policies and Practices

Chapter 6 Global Pollution, Multinational Oil Companies and State Power: The Case of Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation

Chapter 7 A Decade of Social and Environmental Mobilization Against Mega-Mining in Chubut, Argentinian Patagonia

Chapter 8 Agro-Industry Expansion Through “Strategic Alliances”: The Shifting Dynamics of Palm Oil-Related Dispossession

Chapter 9 The Injustices of Policing, Law and Multinational Monopolization in the Privatization of Natural Diversity: Cases from Colombia and Latin America

Chapter 10 The Use and Abuse of Animals in Wildlife Trafficking in Colombia: Practices and Injustice

Chapter 11 Wildlife Trafficking in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

Chapter 12 Biomedical Research vs. Biodiversity Conservation in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon: Searching for Law Enforcement Where There is Lack of Accountability

Chapter 13 An Epilogue to the Book, Not an Elegy for the Earth