PICT103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Paris Agreement, Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation, Nationstates
5 Jun 2018
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Environmental Crime
Introduction
• Industrialisation has had a huge influence on the way that people interact with the
environment, and it had shifted the balance of human's relationships with nature
• There has been an accelerated extinction rate. 1000 large species are now extinct
• An issue that contributes to this is population density. There is not one part of the
planet that is not affected by humans in some way.
PART 1: Definitions and approaches
Examples of environmental crimes?
• Poaching
• Animal cruelty
• Littering
• Air pollution
• Illegal dumping
• Industrial safety violations
• Nuclear contamination
• Illegal fishing & whaling
• Arson
• Water theft
• Killing protected species
• Exporting toxic waste
• Habitat destruction
• Illegal logging/clearing
• Smuggling wildlife
• Contamination of agricultural land
• Bio-piracy
• Unlawful proliferation/ contamination by genetically modified organisms
Legal definitions
• An environment crime is "a deliberate or careless act that arms the environment and
breaks current laws"
• E.g. illegal fishing, toxic dumping, littering, killing protected species
• Legal definitions are extraordinary narrow - fail to capture many of the most serious
types of environmentally damaging activity
Harm based definitions
• Focus on legal or illegal destructive acts that damage the environment and harm
human health and property
• Examples include climate change, air pollution, toxic contamination of water sources
and food supply chains
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Document Summary
Industrialisation has had a huge influence on the way that people interact with the environment, and it had shifted the balance of human"s relationships with nature: there has been an accelerated extinction rate. 1000 large species are now extinct: an issue that contributes to this is population density. There is not one part of the planet that is not affected by humans in some way. Industrial safety violations: poaching, animal cruelty, littering, air pollution, nuclear contamination, arson, water theft, killing protected species, exporting toxic waste, habitat destruction, smuggling wildlife, contamination of agricultural land, bio-piracy, unlawful proliferation/ contamination by genetically modified organisms. Individuals often poor people in developing nations (e. g. poaching, land clearance, illegal fishing, etc. : consumers who purchase goods associated linked to environmental harm (e. g. rhino horn, uncertified palm oil) Problems with identification: geographical local, regional, national, international, temporal immediate/latent, short-term/long-term, victims human, non-human, environment.
