International and national safeguards against environmental crime (A Comparative study)

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Muayyad Jabbar Mohammad

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Clearly, it cannot be found an environmental and social fair society, when the social life is under dominance and influence of competition, profit, economic growth, monopolies and the growth welfare standards. Also, the unfettered consumerism leads to over –exploitation. In fact, the unfair exploitation of the natural resources and its depletion, poverty and the terrible over-population, and the environmental crimes are all effects raised the alarm. It is necessary to examine these possibilities and the extent to which it meets the growing needs in the future. Really, the world is threatened with running out of these resources, furthermore, the environmental crimes may affect the ecological balance and the range of perpetrators varies and expands from national to international. As a result, the international community and the national laws have issued a number of sanctions, when the environmental crimes are committed, to maintain and protect the sustainable environment and pollution abatement.
However, the importance of the study lies in its legal novelty from the part of the environmental crime and the subject of environment which are considered as the most important ones to exchange views at the international and national levels. This returns to increase the level of the environmental degradation as a result of a bad behavior of man with environment and by increasing the deliberate and unintentional bad using over the world. In the 1972, especially in the half of the twentieth century, a legal study for combating the environmental crime appeared to protect and interest the environment at both national and international level 

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مؤيد جبار محمد. (2021). International and national safeguards against environmental crime (A Comparative study). MIsan Journal of Comparative Legal Studies, 1(3), 112–137. https://doi.org/10.61266/mjcls.v1i3.56
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