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Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms

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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.

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ISBN: 9781138936638
Publication date: 12th June 2017
Author: Tiffany Bergin
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 298 pages
Series: Law, Justice and Ecology
Genres: Environment law
Sociology
Social impact of environmental issues