The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus

The genocide-ecocide nexus examines how environmental destruction can lead to conditions that threaten a social group's cultural and physical existence, leading to genocide. This book explores case studies in Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, and Brazil to highlight the connections and vectors of the genocide-ecocide nexus.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 178 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In a world plagued by an escalating ecological crisis, numerous culturally distinct social groups, including indigenous peoples, face mounting genocidal pressures. This is where the genocide-ecocide nexus emerges as a pressing concern. Ecocide, the destruction of ecosystems, can take on a genocidal dimension when it leads to conditions that fundamentally threaten a social group's cultural and/or physical existence. Given the looming threat of climate change, which is accompanied by rapid species extinction, habitat destruction, ecological collapse, and the undeniable reliance of the human race on our bio-sphere, ecocide, whether natural or manmade, will assume a central role in driving genocide.

To explore and analyze the intricate connections and vectors of the genocide-ecocide nexus, this book presents nine chapters of cutting-edge research. These chapters examine specific case studies in geographical contexts such as Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, and Brazil, highlighting the crucial interplay between genocide and ecocide. This book holds immense value for scholars, students, and researchers engaged in the ecological crisis, Environmental Justice, the political economy of genocide and ecocide, as well as environmental human rights.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Genocide Research, further contributing to the ongoing discourse on these critical topics.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032183084