Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of Ecocrime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of Ecocrime write by Laura Westra. This book was released on 2021-11-22. Ecoviolence and the Law: Supranational Normative Foundation of Ecocrime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring such acts of environmental violence as "ecocrimes," the author builds the case that the international law principles of jus cogens and erga omnes justify characterizing ecocrime as a "just crime" requiring action to curb their occurrence and punishment to deter them. The book discusses the obstacles that defining environmental assaults as "ecocrimes" will face both in national and international circumstances. The author concludes by proposing the creation of an International Environmental Court that would adjudicate "ecocrime" issues. This forward thinking work will be of great interest to all involved in the human rights issues of environmental threats. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Ecoviolence and the Law
Ecoviolence and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecoviolence and the Law write by Laura Westra. This book was released on 2004. Ecoviolence and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Westra proposes a different way of looking at the multiple environmental crises threatening the global community, contending that the current movement, in both ethics and the law, towards a separation of human rights and environmental rights is profoundly misguided. She argues that these are not separate fields of study or endeavour but are closely interrelated, and access to clean air and water, land capable of growing uncontaminated food, and a climate that fosters growth are inherent human rights. After providing an examination of cases where the depravation of environmental rights can be construed as an assault on the current and future wellbeing of a community, Dr. Westra conceives the creation of an International Environmental Court that would adjudicate ecocrime issues, combining careful analysis with imaginative solutions.
Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food
Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food write by Reece Walters. This book was released on 2010-10-04. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The GM debate has been ongoing for over a decade, yet it has been contained in the scientific world and presented in technical terms. Eco Crime and Genetically Modified Food brings the debates about GM food into the social and criminological arena. This book highlights the criminal and harmful actions of state and corporate officials. It concludes that corporate and political corruption, uncertain science, bitter public opposition, growing farmer concern and bankruptcy, irreversible damage to biodervisty, corporate monopolies and exploitation, disregard for social and cultural practices, devastation of small scale and local agricultural economies, imminent threats to organics, weak regulation, and widespread political and biotech mistrust – do not provide the bases for advancing and progressing GM foods into the next decade. Yet, with the backing of the WTO, the US and UK Governments march on – but at what cost to future generations?
Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms
Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms write by Tiffany Bergin. This book was released on 2017-06-14. Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Child Law
Child Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Law write by Laura Westra. This book was released on 2014-06-17. Child Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Child Law starts with the question “Who is the Child?” In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the interests of the child first in all policies dealing with children, it appears that the interests of others are the major consideration de facto. In law, children’s right to protection is severely limited by the presence of a maximum age limit, with no consideration of the starting point: current and ongoing scientific research has demonstrated the effects of this non-consideration in a number of abnormalities and diseases, not only in children, but in adults and the elderly. The WHO has published a number of studies to that effect and the 2012 Report on Endocrine Disruptors more than confirms this claim. This and other scientific insights that have largely been ignored show the flaws and inadequacies of the legal regimes intended to protect children, in a number of areas, from the basic public health to the right to normal development; child labor law conventions; in conflict situations; as a result of climate and other events; children as illegal migrants and as inmates in prison camps.
