The violence of silence: some reflections on access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in matters concerning the environment

Brisman, Avi

doi:10.1007/s10611-013-9416-3

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“…Both states and companies regularly engage in techniques of neutralisation whereby they decry their critics, deny the extent and nature of environmental harm, and excuse themselves from accountability for environmental destruction accompanying economic enterprise (Brisman, 2013). This case was no exception.…”

Section: Interpreting the Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water theft in rural contexts

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2019

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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Water theft is a phenomenon that is set to grow in the light of climate change, chronic drought, freshwater scarcity, and conflicts over natural resources. Drawing upon recent developments pertaining to poor regulation and the stealing of water from the Murray-Darling river system in Australia, this paper explores the cultural and political economic dimensions of water theft in the context of rurality and criminality. Framed within the overarching perspective of green criminology, the article examines water theft through the lens of rural folk crime as well as failures of regulation and environmental law enforcement. It raises issues relating to the social construction of victims of water theft, human (such as Indigenous people) and non-human (such as ecosystems). This article argues that the geographical location of water theft is integral to the dynamics of the harms committed, and the response of both governments and residents to the crime.

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Section: Interpreting the Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water theft in rural contexts

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2019

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…Increasingly, there are scarcities of specific resources (for example, forest cover, marine fisheries, freshwater systems and fossil fuels), leading to a proliferation of ownership contests (for example, disputed islands involving China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan; re-drawing of boundaries in the Arctic among border states such as Russia, Canada, Norway and the United States) (see, for example, Brisman 2013a). Meanwhile, to guard against immediate food shortages, government-backed agricultural firms in China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are already buying large tracts of arable land in Africa and elsewhere to provide food for consumption at home (Brisman 2013b). Security is being sought through the appropriation of resources in specific biosocial locations.…”

Section: Natural Resource Extraction and Securitisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corruption and the Securitisation of Nature

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2017

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This article considers corruption in Australia in relation to the exploitation and preservation of natural resources. In doing so, it examines issues pertaining to a proposed pulp mill and the forestry industry in Tasmania, the development of mining and ports in Queensland, and international agreements pertaining to deep-sea oil drilling in the Timor Sea. Corruption relating to the environment is interpreted in this article as implying both moral corruption and/or direct corruption. Gaining unfair advantage, protecting specific sectoral interests and over-riding existing environmental regulations are all features of the types of corruption associated with the exploitation of natural resources. The result is lack of transparency, a substantial democratic deficit, and expenditure of public monies, time and resources in support of environmentally and socially dubious activities. KeywordsNatural resources; corruption; securitisation; state-corporate crime. Please cite this article as:

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“…What is the relationship between the knowledge of the risks that are present in a contaminated environment, the experiences of environmental suffering and injustice lived by the inhabitants, and their responses to these threats and harms experienced in the first person? And what does, or can, one expect from the system of justice (Bisschop and Vande Walle, 2013: 49; see also Brisman, 2013;?…”

Section: The Need For Empirical Research About Environmental Victimizmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Harms and Crimes

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2015

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The violence of silence: some reflections on access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in matters concerning the environment

Cited by 43 publications

References 21 publications

Water theft in rural contexts

Water theft in rural contexts

Corruption and the Securitisation of Nature

Green Harms and Crimes

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