Environmental Crime

Contents: Preface. 1. Definition of environmental crime. 2. Theory of environmental crime. 3. Types of environmental crime. 4. Environmental crime and climate change. 5. Pollution relating to crime. 6. Bhopal gas tragedy. 7. Environmental needs in India. 8. Corruption and the global economy. 9. Retail crime. 10. Role of pollution control board. 11. Environmental crime and civil rights. 12. International environmental crime. 13. Preventing environmental crime. 14. Planning and environmental issues. Bibliography. Index.

"The present publication is a research-oriented study of the alarming global environmental crime. Environmental crime have a pretty long history evolving out of a need to protect water supplies, soil fertility and human health in general, from the economic and social activities of man.

There existed laws such as Disraeli's Rivers Act of 1876 in England and the findings of Royal Commission into pollution in that country in the late 19 and early 20 century which provided abase for the development of environmental statue law world over.

The book also deals with the verses Environmental Crime which attracted the attention of the mass media. Another area of environmental crime discussed is noise and industrial pollution. The book also focuses on violent crime and disorder which can be viewed as pollution in many instances. The other areas of study include child pornography.

This study nodoubt will go a long way in exposing the global environmental crime, a greation of the growing influence of the luxurious middle class and needed for related preventive measures through environmental laws." (jacket)