Too Insecure: Water and Security

Problematizando el victimismo ambiental. El caso de San Cristóbal de las Casas

“…A green criminological perspective is undoubtedly concerned with the harmful consequences stemming from corporate activities of water overexploitation. Precisely, the previous considerations strongly suggest that the San Cristobal case is a paradigmatic example of a 'water conflict', that is, a conflict over the privatisation of water resources by corporations with the complicity of local or national authorities (Brisman et al, 2018;Johnson et al, 2016). In this respect, a green criminological harm-based assessment of environmental victimisation, if supported by empirical data, would draw a link between TCCC-FEMCA' s exploitation of the Huitepec basin and infringements of local inhabitants' human rights.…”

Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Africa

“…Climate change is an obvious example that highlights not only the urgency of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development but also, as Raftopoulos (2023) suggests, the opportunities and challenges entailed for African states as they meet REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in so-called 'developing countries') goals alongside fulfilling human rights obligations (see also, Gizachew et al 2017). Climate change will also impact global water resources-availability, scarcity, and related conflicts and crimes (Brisman et al 2018). This will be vitally important across the continent but also with regard to 'ocean conservation and sustainable marine and coastal resource management' for Africa (Barendse et al 2023).…”

Authoritarian Environmentalism and Epistemological Violence: A Southern Green Criminology Analysis of the 2014 Lanzhou Water Crisis and the Belt and Road Initiative Expansion into the Global Water Sector

“…The world's rapidly growing population has created an escalating demand for freshwater, especially in the Global South, where most of the population growth is expected to occur in the coming decades (Brisman et al 2018). Inadequate access to safe and sanitary water has been attributed to over 3% of all human deaths worldwide, with children under the age of five being the most vulnerable (Brisman et al 2018). International law recognizes the right to water as a fundamental human right.…”

“…The commodification of water resources has been a significant focus of green criminology, particularly regarding privatization, contamination, and water theft (Brisman et al 2018(Brisman et al , 2020Eman and White 2020;Johnson, South and Walters 2016;White 2019). As the private sector's involvement in water supply management has grown globally, it has been viewed as a manifestation of the neoliberalization of natural resources that can increase water service efficiency and improve water quality in the Global South (Zhang et al 2016).…”

“…As the private sector's involvement in water supply management has grown globally, it has been viewed as a manifestation of the neoliberalization of natural resources that can increase water service efficiency and improve water quality in the Global South (Zhang et al 2016). However, past studies on privatization have highlighted profound difficulties in governance and regulation, leading to growing inequalities and dispossession and resulting in environmental and social harm against underprivileged communities in the Global South (Bakker 2014;Brisman et al 2018;Eman and White 2020;Goyes 2019;Goyes and South 2019).…”