Human interaction with, and exploitation of, the environment has led to
some devastating impacts on both humans and the environment (inclusive
of its constituent parts). These range from human health problems,
socially disadvantaged and poor communities living in degraded environments,
species extinction, biodiversity loss, and potentially irreversible
climate change. These impacts arise from both legal and illegal activity.
‘Green criminology’ (Lynch 1990) is a broad concept under which fits
many different approaches which have at the core human/environment
interaction and a concern with the impact that human/environment
interaction has on both humans and the environment and also a concern
about what to do about those impacts (White and Heckenberg 2014