Need for Mitigation Against Green Crimes to Counteract Effect of Climate Change
Abstract
The scope of green crimes has grown significantly in the three decades since its inception. It’s not just about environmental harms or tracing the causes of these concussions. It now also brings concentrating on the creation of environmental law integration and regulation, the problem of environmental justice, and the ways that ecological harms impact every living thing. And like any other field of criminological research, green crimes must grapple with the definition of its core emphasis, which is neither straightforward nor settled. Green crimes are defined as environmental harms relating to wildlife conservation and harm to wildlife. Animals are harmed by a wide range of human actions, while green crimes have dealt with climate change in a variety of ways. The most important of these investigates the social, environmental, and economic injustices that both human and animal species suffer as a result of these injustices. Examples of green crimes include local and global problems like pollution, ecological destruction, poaching, as well as broad-reaching effects like climate change and anthropogenic species extinction. All species, not just humans, are actual victims of these numerous crimes. Environmental crimes, in contrast to street crimes, pose a danger to global stability. The fundamental issue with climate change is a lack of effective and targeted mitigation. The researcher in this chapter will examine the present incarnation of environmental crime in India, as well as any potential remedies or impediments to resolving this epidemic using green criminology.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Environmental law and policy
Legal Studies and Policies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 358–373
- Publication date
- 13 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter