Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law

Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law assesses the legal, theoretical and practical implications of interstate cooperation aimed at harmonising environmental criminal law standards. The book analyses the rationales for criminalisation of environmental offences and the approaches to harmonisation under specific European and international legal instruments.

"In conclusion, the book is a very well-documented account of the main issues relating to the legal regulation of environmental crime especially from the EU law perspective. It refers extensively to relevant literature and it is evident that the Author has undertaken great efforts in the comparative research completed"; International Community Law Review, vol. 18, issue 3-4; Dr. Elena Fasoli, University of London. "This book illustrates comprehensively and convincingly the implications of environmental criminal law as a topic of both great theoretical interest and of highest practical importance being a number one global challenge in the 21st century"; European Energy and Environmental Law Review, vol 27 (2018) issue 2, p.71-75; Vanessa Kisseler, Humboldt University Berlin. This work has been cited in the United Nations Environment Programme's comprehensive study on environmental crime globally: https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/25713/knowledge_crime_envImpacts.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1

Ricardo M. Pereira, LL.M. (London), Ph.D. (2009) in Law, Essex University, is Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University, Law & Politics School. He previously held the positions of Senior Lecturer in Law and Sustainability at the University of Westminster, Business School, United Kingdom; and Lecturer in Environmental and Energy Law at Imperial College, London. He has published in the fields of public international law, environmental law, European criminal law and human rights law in peer-reviewed periodicals such as the Melbourne Journal of International Law, the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law; and the European Energy and Environmental Law Review, as well as chapters in books. He is co-editor of Environmental and Energy Law, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.