Forging a socio-legal approach to environmental harms global perspectives

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Forging a socio-legal approach to environmental harms global perspectives

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edited by Tiffany Bergin and Emanuela Orlando

Contributor

• Orlando, Emanuela
• Orlando, Emanuela
• Bergin, Tiffany
• Bergin, Tiffany

Editor

• Bergin, Tiffany
• Bergin, Tiffany
• Orlando, Emanuela
• Orlando, Emanuela

Subject

• Environmental law, International -- Criminal provisions
• Offenses against the environment
• Offenses against the environment
• Offenses against the environment -- Law and legislation
• Offenses against the environment -- Law and legislation

Language

eng

Summary

"Environmental harms exert a significant toll and pose substantial economic costs on societies around the world. Although such harms have been studied from both legal and social science perspectives, these disciplinary-specific approaches are not, on their own, fully able to address the complexity of these environmental challenges. Many legal approaches, for example, are limited by their inattention to the motivations behind environmental offences, whereas many social science approaches are hindered by an insufficient grounding in current legislative frameworks. This edited collection constitutes a pioneering attempt to overcome these limitations by uniting legal and social science perspectives. Together, the books contributors forge an innovative socio-legal approach to more effectively respond to, and to prevent, environmental harms around the world. Integrating theoretical and empirical work, the book presents carefully selected illustrations of how legal and social science scholarship can be brought together to improve policies. The various chapters examine how a socio-legal approach can ultimately lead to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental harms, as well as to innovative and effective responses to such environmental offences"--Back cover

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• Law, justice and ecology

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Law, Justice and Ecology