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Introduction to Environmental Harmful Factors
2021In this Chapter, we systematically and comprehensively described various environmental harmful factors. They were classified into four aspects: physical factors, chemical factors, biological factors, and physiological and psychological stress factors. Their classification, modes of presence, toxicity and carcinogenicity, routes of exposure to human and
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Environmental Harm and the Visual
2021This chapter describes the intersection of visual and green criminology. It offers a concise outline of the cross-fertilization of these tendencies—green-visual criminology—as well as examples of the theoretical and methodological trends developing from that intersection, and of the ways in which environmental crime and harm have been taken on visually.
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Locating the Environmental Harm in Environmental Crimes
Utah Law Review, 2009 The current approach to environmental harm is odd from a criminal law perspective. The environmental criminal statutes barely deal with the subject at all. The environmental sentencing guidelines, on the other hand, focus almost entirely on harm.
Mandiberg, Susan F.
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Aerosols: The environmental harmful effect
Paediatric Respiratory Reviews, 2006Aerosols as end products of ambient indoor and outdoor pollution have some potential harmful effect. Children are especially at risk due to their developing organ systems. This is mainly true for the lungs, but may also be true for other organ systems, such as the immune system.
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2021
This chapter conceptualises the work of environmental/green victimology and its focus on victims of environmental harm. Green criminology has been slow to engage with victims of environmental harm and crime. This may be a result of the view that environmental crime is not real crime, in that it is not intrinsically bad because some harm to the ...
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This chapter conceptualises the work of environmental/green victimology and its focus on victims of environmental harm. Green criminology has been slow to engage with victims of environmental harm and crime. This may be a result of the view that environmental crime is not real crime, in that it is not intrinsically bad because some harm to the ...
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Rights, Reasonableness, and Environmental Harms
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2018Resnik and colleagues argue that (1) influential theories of justice like utilitarianism and libertarianism fail to provide specific guidance on issues pertaining to the distribution of environment...
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Environmental Pollution & the Threshold of Harm
The Hastings Center Report, 1984hat is a public interest? What kinds of harms are public harms? There are in general two closely connected conceptions. According to the one, a "public interest" is a collection of specific interests of the same kind possessed by a large and indefinite number of private individuals. The interests in the collection do not necessarily belong to everyone,
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2013
A systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.
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A systematic and critical discussion of the nature of environmental harm from an eco-justice perspective, challenging conventional criminological definitions of environmental harm. It features examples and illustrations from many national contexts.
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Globalisation and environmental harm
2013Global environmental harm is not new. For many centuries humans have done things to the environment that have fundamentally transformed local landscapes and regional biodiversities. From bringing plants and animals from the ‘homeland’ to new parts of the world, to polluting rivers and seas with industrial outfall, to fire burning in particular ...
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Smart Mixes for Transboundary Environmental Harm
2019This work offers a multidisciplinary approach to legal and policy instruments used to prevent and remedy global environmental challenges. It provides a theoretical overview of a variety of instruments, making distinctions between levels of governance (treaties, domestic law), types of instruments (market-based instruments, regulation, and liability ...
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