Ecocide
Definition
Mass damage or destruction of ecosystems, proposed since the 2010s as a fifth international crime alongside genocide and crimes against humanity.
Related terms
- Development-Induced Displacement
- The forced removal of communities from their land to make way for dams, mines, plantations or other infrastructure projects.
- Environmental Crime
- Conduct that breaches environmental statutes, such as illegal dumping, unlicensed logging, wildlife trafficking or discharging pollutants above a permitted limit.
- Environmental Justice
- The claim that environmental harm falls disproportionately on poor, minority and indigenous communities, and that this distribution is itself an injustice.
- Green Criminology
- A criminological perspective that studies crimes against the environment, including pollution, illegal wildlife trade, and resource exploitation, as well as the role...
- State-Corporate Crime
- Harm that arises when a government institution and a corporation pursue a shared goal together, a concept developed by Kramer and Michalowski...