This module looks at the social, economic and political forces that drive environmental harm. Throughout the semester we will discuss human-wrought destruction through a variety of topics such as biopiracy, space missions, caviar consumption, electric cars and eco-tourism. We will explore how and why environmental harm comes about by looking at key concepts, theories and perspectives put forward by criminologists, sociologists and political ecologists. Peer-learning takes centre stage in this work-intensive module: you will collaborate extensively to develop group assignments, provide feedback to one another, and enrich your understanding of environmental harm through shared insight. Students who successfully complete the module will be able to develop complex analyses that connect global trends to local phenomena in order to explain different forms of environmental harm.