Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms: Global Perspectives (Law, Justice and Ecology)

Synopsis

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 book’s 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.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781317385998

Related ISBNs:

9781315676715, 9781138936638, 9781138936638, 9780367180737, 9780367180737

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/07/19

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Tiffany Bergin and Emanuela Orlando

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.