Handbook

In this subject, students will examine the range of human activities and behaviours that are understood to produce environmental harm and how these may be distinguished from activities which constitute environmental crime. Students will examine how environmental harm and crime are socially constructed, as well as how environmental crime is prevented and regulated. Using a justice framework, students will examine a series of case studies in climate change, fishing, timber harvesting and biodiversity management, to examine how the principles of 'social' justice might be applied and provide tools for citizen activism, engagement and policy reform. Students will also consider to what extent justice might be evaluated or achieved in the environmental context.