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Very capably edited by Brisman (Eastern Kentucky Univ.), South (Essex Univ., UK), and White (Univ. of Tasmania), this collection is an excellent addition to the blossoming literature on green criminology.  The editors chief goals were to pull together disparate forms of conflict related to environmental crimes, to stress the international compass of green criminology, and to explore their own thinking about a typology of environment-conflict relationships.  This they achieve in chapter 1 while also organizing the other 12 chapters into four well-considered areas: conflict over natural resource possession, conflict over declining resources, conflict that destroys environments, and conflict over natural resource extractions.  The contributors come from around the world; many of the chapters are state of the art.  The substantive topics examined include, for example, conflict that kills animals in Congo, Norway, and elsewhere; illegal logging; the effects of war on the environment; poaching and the weaponizing of poachers; piracy; oil spills, mining disasters and other human-caused environmental degradation; and a typology of representations of environment and conflict.  All the chapters are well written in relatively jargon-free language.  This is without doubt an important collection.  It deserves a wide audience.Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.