Criminology has awoken to the plight of the environment. The continually growing
field of green criminology is testimony to such scholarship and is dedicated to uncovering
green harm and crime that injures people, other species and the planet. The
crimes against the environment are varied and quite extensive. White (2011) proposes
these can be categorised into three groupings: white (scientific and technological
concerns), green (ecological and environmental concerns) and brown (waste,
pollution and toxic concerns). This book is a unique collection focussed exclusively
on the latter. Hazardous waste and pollution take on numerous forms, have various
causes and impact tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people.