of conflict related to environmental matters.2 This is deliberate in order to achieve
several goals. First, we wished to pull together such disparate examples to provide
a baseline resource for a criminology concerned with environment and conflict
relationships. Although well explored in fields like political ecology, political
science, geography and conflict studies, this is not a topic that has received much
attention within criminology, despite the fact that crimes and harms of considerable
seriousness and significance are intertwined with these conflicts. Second, we wanted
to continue to highlight the international compass of a green or environmentally
sensitive criminology (South and Brisman 2013; White 2010, 2011; White and
Heckenberg 2014). The contributors to this volume exemplify this global engagement
and they bring to bear on their chosen topics a keen intellectual interest, academic
rigour and passionate concern. Finally, we wanted to explore our own thinking about
a typology of environment-conflict relationships. In this introductory chapter, we
start by outlining and filling out in a preliminary way what such a typology might
look like. We then move to an overview of the chapters that follow.