Book contents
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 Ecoviolence Studies and Human Security
- 2 The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
- 3 Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
- 4 Ecoviolence at Sea
- 5 There Will Be Blood: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector
- 6 Artisanal Gold Mining in Uganda: Towards Formalization as Remediation of Dignity and Rights
- 7 Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration
- 8 Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
- 9 Sea of Cortez Region: Crime and Ecosystem Crossroads
- 10 Minority Languages as Collateral Damage in the Climate Crisis: The Incidental Result of Ecoviolence on Y Gymraeg/Welsh Language
- Index
- References
3 - Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2025
Book contents
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Ecoviolence Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1 Ecoviolence Studies and Human Security
- 2 The Links between Human Trafficking and Wildlife Trafficking
- 3 Preventing a Secondary Disaster: How Emergency Management Agencies Can Prepare and Respond to Disaster-Linked Exploitation
- 4 Ecoviolence at Sea
- 5 There Will Be Blood: The Return of the Frontier Logic in Guyana and Hyper-Exploitation in the Mining Sector
- 6 Artisanal Gold Mining in Uganda: Towards Formalization as Remediation of Dignity and Rights
- 7 Searching for Shelter in the Climate Crisis Era: Ecocide and Migration
- 8 Climate Change, Violence and Ecocide
- 9 Sea of Cortez Region: Crime and Ecosystem Crossroads
- 10 Minority Languages as Collateral Damage in the Climate Crisis: The Incidental Result of Ecoviolence on Y Gymraeg/Welsh Language
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores how traffickers exploit economic pressure, political instability, and social and cultural factors present during disasters, linking said activities to ecoviolence. While disasters thrust victims into a state of heightened vulnerability, Federal, State, and local emergency management agencies should update their preparedness, response, and recovery programs to include preventative measures to mitigate foreseeable secondary victimization. While the research field focusing on the nexus between natural disasters and the trafficking of persons is in a nascent stage, experts are starting to examine the value of well-trained responders who play in the mosaic of a “whole-of-government” counter-trafficking response plan. This chapter will conclude with a planned emergency management response to climate change that results in more extreme events across the globe.
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- Ecoviolence StudiesHuman Exploitation and Environmental Crime, pp. 40 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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