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The Foundations of Eco-global Criminology

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posted on 2023-05-22, 13:48 authored by Robert WhiteRobert White
A concern with environmental crime inevitably leads the analytical gaze to acknowledge the fusion of the local and the global, and to ponder the ways in which such harms transcend the normal boundaries of jurisdiction, geography and social divide. This observation is important because so much environmental harm is intrinsically transnational. Contemporary discussions of environmental crime, for example, deal with issues such as the illegal transport and dumping of toxic waste, the illegal traffic in radioactive or nuclear substances, the proliferation of 'e'-waste generated by the disposal of tens-of-thousands of computers and other electronic equipment, trans-border pollution that is systematic (via location of factories) or accidental (for example, chemical plant spills), the illegal trade in plants and non-human animals, and illegal fishing, hunting and logging. This list goes on, but the point is that environmental harm, whether conceptualised in conventional legal terms or based upon more encompassing ecologically-based conceptions of harm, is by nature mobile and easily subject to transference.

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Publication title

Eco-global Crimes: Contemporary Problems and Future Challenges

Editors

R Ellefsen, R Sollund and G Larsen

Pagination

15-32

ISBN

9781409434924

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Ashgate

Place of publication

Surrey, England

Extent

15

Rights statement

Copyright 2012 Ashgate Pub.

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  • Restricted

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Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified

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