Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms: Global Perspectives

Book Details

• Author: Tiffany Bergin

• Publisher: Routledge

• ISBN: 9780367180737

• Pages: 286

• Binding: Paperback

• Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches

• Languages: English

• Release Date: 26-01-2019

About The Book
Environmental Harms: Legal and Social Science Perspectives is an innovative edited collection that addresses the growing global environmental challenges by integrating legal and social science perspectives. Environmental harms, with their substantial toll on societies and economies, require a multifaceted approach. Traditional legal frameworks, which often fail to fully consider the motivations behind environmental offenses, and social science approaches, which are sometimes disconnected from legislative structures, are limited in isolation.

This book bridges these gaps by offering a pioneering socio-legal approach, combining theoretical and empirical work to present an integrated framework for understanding and responding to environmental harms. The contributors explore how this approach can enhance policies and provide more effective solutions to global environmental issues. Through a series of carefully selected case studies and analyses, the book shows how the fusion of legal and social science scholarship can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental offenses and more innovative, impactful responses to them.

Ideal for scholars and policymakers, this volume provides a fresh perspective on tackling one of the most pressing challenges of our time.