An edited volume from Dr Emma Milne, from Durham Law School, argues that environmental crimes are more likely to impact women.
The book, entitled ‘Gendering Green Criminology’, has been named one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year.
The book brings together research in the fields of green, or climate-related, crimes and harms. It explores how green crimes and environmental harms impact different people, and who is at most risk.
Through a collection of research papers, the book presents evidence that green crimes, environmental harms, and climate change disproportionately impact women and children.
It also suggests that often it is men who perpetrate such crimes or cause the degradation.
The research within the new book covers areas from across the Global North and the Global South.
Research in the book found that women are more likely to be involved in efforts to enact climate change policies. Resistance is also more likely to come from women — in part because ‘green crime’ impacts them most of all.
One example highlighted in the book is that of Turkish woman Rabiye Bekar. In July 2015 Bekar sat down in front of bulldozers to protest the ‘Green Road’ project. This 2,600km construction project was intended to promote mineral trade to and from Turkey. However, locals feared it would cause irreversible damage to their environment.
Bekar’s protest is one example of how women have led in the fight against environmental crime.
Part of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year awards are given annually each December.
They acknowledge the very best in scholarship and publication across the year.
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