Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3016C: Legal Response to Environmental Destruction

This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Essential textbooks:

 

Recommended additional resources:

 

  • Damien Short and Martin Crook (eds), The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus (Routledge, 2022).
  • Yuliya Zabyelina & Daan Van Uhm (eds), Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
  • Spapens, White, and Kluin (eds), Environmental Crime and Its Victims: Perspectives Within Green Criminology (Ashgate, 2014)
  • Avi Brisman, Nigel South, and Rob White (eds), Environmental Crime and Social Conflict: Contemporary and Emerging Issues (Ashgate, 2015)
  • Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases & Materials (2nd edn, Oxford: OUP, 2019)
  • Toine Spapens, Rob White and Marieke Kluin (eds) Environmental Crime and its Victims: Perspectives Within Green Criminology (Ashgate, 2014).

 

Sample journal articles & contributions to edited volumes:

 

  • Tim Lindgren, ‘Ecocide, Genocide and the Disregard of Alternative Life-Systems (2017) Vol. 22, No. 4, The International Journal of Human Rights, 525
  • Polly Higgins, Damien Short, and Nigel South, ‘Protecting the Planet: A Proposal for a Law of Ecocide (2013) Vol 59, Crime Law Soc Change, 251.
  • Philip. M. Fearnside, ‘Land-Tenure Issues as Factors in Environmental Destruction in Brazilian Amazonia: The Case of Southern Pará (2001) Vol. 29, No. 8, World Development, 1361
  • S. Humphreys, ‘Competing claims: human rights and climate harms’ in Humphreys (Ed.), Human Rights and Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Chapter 1 p37-66.
  • Adam Branch and Liana Minkova, ‘Ecocide, the Anthropocene and the International Criminal Court’ (2023) Vol. 3, No. 1, Ethics & International Affairs, 51.
  • L. Rajamani, ‘The 2015 Paris Agreement: Interplay Between Hard, Soft and Non-Obligations’ (2016) 28 Journal of Environmental Law 337–358.
  • C. Reid and W. Nsoh, 'The Privatisation of Biodiversity?' (Edward Elgar, 2016) Chapter 9: Reflections pp.253-260.
  • Venn ‘Social Justice and Climate Change’ in T. M. Letcher (Ed.) Managing Global Warming: An interface between technology and human issues (Elsevier, 2018) Chapter 24 pp.711-723.
  • Yamineva and Romppanen, ‘Is Law Failing to address Air Pollution? Reflections on international and EU developments’ (2017) RECIEL, 26(3) 189-200.