Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems
People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 11, Page 3057-3066, November 2025.Abstract Global biodiversity has declined rapidly in recent decades, and existing laws have proven insufficient to protect the environment from harm. There is no ‘silver bullet’ to remedying species population declines and extinctions and loss of ecosystems, but criminal law could be a crucial tool.
Kellie Toole +5 more
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Science Education, Volume 109, Issue 6, Page 1652-1668, November 2025.ABSTRACT In this article I explore the case of the Mariana dam disaster in 2015 in Brazil seeking to contribute to reflections about the role of chemistry and chemistry education in environmental injustices. Drawing on stories about this disaster shared in the Dead River Podcast (2024), on wider literature and on other cases of environmental injustices
Haira E. Gandolfi
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Despite teething problems, the ECI stimulates European-wide debates. EPIN Commentary No. 37/20 March 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 This commentary maps European Citizens’ Initiatives (ECIs) that have fostered a European-wide debate and finds common characteristics among the campaigns that remained active following the period of collecting signatures.
Greenwood, Justin., Tuokko, Katja
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The doctrine of reconciliation: Its meaning and implications for social life
In die Skriflig, 2018 Reconciliation as a socio-political concept, has become highly topical in the South African discourse about social transformation over the past two decades in the aftermath of Apartheid.
J.M. Vorster
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CLAFS, a Holistic Climatic-Ecological-Anthropogenic Hypothesis on Easter Island's Deforestation and Cultural Change: Proposals and Testing Prospects [PDF]
, 2018 This paper reviews the existing hypotheses concerning the cultural shift from the Ancient Cult (AC) to the Birdman Cult (BC) that occurred on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) during the last millennium and introduces a holistic new hypothesis called CLAFS ...
Bradley, Raymond +9 more
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The Paris agreement shows we need a paradigm shift to tackle climate change [PDF]
, 2015 The Paris climate change summit COP21 ended last week with the signing of a ‘historical’ agreement, to much acclaim worldwide. Prisca Merz argues that the deal is, in fact, bitterly insufficient, even though there are some encouraging signs: solutions ...
Merz, Prisca
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership StudiesThe concept of “sustainable development” fuelling today’s sustainability industry may be traced back to the turn of the 14th century. The Holy Roman Empire’s imperialistic expansions into Africa and the Canary Islands eventually morphed into a ...
Christina M. Sayson +5 more
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The Department of Defense and Its Precursors: History, Responsibilities, and Policies (1770s - Present) [PDF]
, 2014 The Department of Defense (DoD) is the nation\u27s oldest agency, founded in 1789, and one of the world\u27s largest single landholders, with approximately twenty-eight million acres under its control in the United States, its territories, and in thirty ...
Brady, Lisa M.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Myopic: Religion and Ethics in Cross-Disciplinary Ecological Dialogue [PDF]
, 2010 A Guardedly Hopeful Prognosis There is a distinct possibility that our human species, the first life form on this planet to achieve thought, may be terminally ill.
Maguire, Daniel C.
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Ecocide, the integrity of creation and the rights of the next generation
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2005 Environmental Ethics is currently a highly important theme in Christian Ethics. This is due to the disturbing results of the current ecological research. Scholars today speak of ecocide a term which describes the on-going destruction of ecosystems by
J M Vorster
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