Green Crime in Mexico

Description

This collection is the first exploration into green crime in Mexico, offering a unique critique of the environmental problems facing Mexico today. Written by a diverse range of Mexican academics and practitioners from different career stages and various different disciplines, this edited volume exposes the corruption, power, and disregard for the environment through highly detailed and engaging case studies. The chapters are grouped into four categories: Environmental Degradation, Social and Environmental Justice, Wildlife Trafficking, and Non-compliance with Environmental Obligations, and are illuminated by rigorous original research. This book fills a substantial gap in knowledge about concerns that are important not only to the Mexican people and the wider region, but to anyone with an interest in the environmental issues facing the world today. To this end, the contributors hope to inspire other Mexicans to study and research green crimes as well as to influence scholars and practitioners across Central and South America who are facing similar environmental crises and challenges. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi Green Harms and Crimes in Mexico (Tanya Wyatt, Ines Arroyo-Quiroz)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Sixteen Years of Parasitism in Cuatrociénegas, Coahuila: The Lesser of Two Evils (L. Paulina Díaz-Rentería)....Pages 25-38 Shale Gas Extraction, Energy Reform, and Environmental Damage (Adriana Judith González Hernández)....Pages 39-48 Loss of Community Identity: Should It Be Considered a Crime If It Is Linked to Environmental Deterioration? (Carla Cynthia Lilia Martínez-Trejo)....Pages 49-59 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Security, Justice, and Forest Protection! An Indigenous Community’s Fight Against Illegal Deforestation and Organised Crime in Cherán, Mexico (Sofía Valeria Cortés Calderón)....Pages 63-73 National Tree Clearing Program: An Environmental Crime for Mexico (Lucila Corral Flores)....Pages 75-86 Wind Power and Environmental Justice: The Case of Istmo de Tehuantepec (Yajaira Garcia Feria)....Pages 87-102 Illegal Logging in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (RBMM) of the States of México and Michoacán, Mexico (Wilber Aníbal Huerta García)....Pages 103-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Wildlife Trafficking by Parcel Service: A National Problem that Threatens Biodiversity (Carolina Citlalli Carrillo-Páez)....Pages 115-125 Laundering of Illegal Wild Fauna in Mexico: Case Study of a Pair of Desert Monitors Varanus griseus griseus (Daudin, 1803) (Diego Jimenez-Bustamante, L. Paulina Díaz Rentería)....Pages 127-136 Traditional Bird Trader Families: Towards a New Approach (Blanca Roldán-Clarà)....Pages 137-148 Trafficking of Totoaba Maw (Israel Alvarado Martínez, Eliz Regina Martínez)....Pages 149-170 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Request for Reversal or Modification of the Imposed Sanctions According to the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection (LGEEPA) (Saulo Augusto Martínez Santoyo)....Pages 173-180 When a Mining Company Releases of Copper Sulphate Acid Solution into the Environment (Misael Morales Bernardino)....Pages 181-203 Back Matter ....Pages 205-208