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Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation

Identification

Public canonical key
doi:10.5553/elr.000220
Authors
Frances Medlock · Rob White
Reported year
2022
Reported language
en
Source type
article
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2026-11-09T19:04:47.675704+00:00
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2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00
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Institutions reported by the source

University of Tasmania

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AU

Documentary abstract — original language

Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation The cataclysmic consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss are revealed in the climate disruptions and escalating extinction of species around the globe. The causes of global warming are directly associated with carbon emissions, the result of the fossil fuel industry and deforestation. Species extinction stems from unfettered resource extraction and the contamination and modification of Nature linked to the growth imperatives of global capitalism. These are crimes of ecocide, crimes that involve foreknowledge, government-provided legitimacy and unprecedented harms to humans, ecosystems and non-human environmental entities such as rivers, mountains, trees, birds and koalas. This article synthesises ideas about ecocentrism, rights of Nature and ecocide within a general framework of criminal law (e.g. prohibition via criminalisation) and social obligation (e.g. prescription via a general environmental duty of care). How best to bring carbon criminals and environmental vandals to justice is the crucial question of our age. As with crimes of the powerful generally, there are profound difficulties in dealing with corporate criminality and state-corporate crime. And yet climate justice demands nothing less than transformative change in circumstance. An ecology-based general duty of care provides a framework whereby social obligation is entrenched in a manner that simultaneously reinforces the criminality of ecocide.

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W4307700204
DOI
10.5553/elr.000220
OPENAIRE
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Frances Medlock; Rob White. Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation. 2022. https://doi.org/10.5553/elr.000220

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Frances Medlock; Rob White. (2022). Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation. https://doi.org/10.5553/elr.000220
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Frances Medlock; Rob White. Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation. 2022. https://doi.org/10.5553/elr.000220
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Frances Medlock; Rob White. Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation. 2022. https://doi.org/10.5553/elr.000220

UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. Ecocide, Ecocentrism and Social Obligation. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-e95b8d27e33318fc242c73f442228619/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed

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Title
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:56.121727+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00
Authors
OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:56.121727+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00
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OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:56.121727+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00
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OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:56.121727+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00
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OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:06:56.121727+00:00
OpenAlex · source · 2026-11-09T19:11:36.722342+00:00

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Research dossiers and documentary relations

University of Tasmania

Frances Medlock

Rob White

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Discovery source · https://doi.org/10.5553/elr.000220

Discovery source · https://openalex.org/W4307700204

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