Abstract:Noise was probably the first environmental pollutant (apart from human waste) in the Ancient world. Yet today, by comparison with other environmental matters, noise and protection from its effects are often overlooked, except in specialist fields such as architecture or planning. One major reason for this may be that noise does not possess the same ability to spread that is characteristic of other forms of pollution. Noise is also an unusual form of environmental pollution in having a physical impactit is 'heard' and can be 'felt' -but is predominantly interpreted subjectively. The impact and consequences of anthropogenic noise for humans and biodiversity in general, are currently under-investigated in criminology and are under-addressed in both public and private international environmental law. Here we question why noise has not (so far) been explored within green criminology and only tentatively explored within cultural criminology. The objectives are to provide an overview of noise as a topic, connecting media, culture, anti-and pro-social behaviour, and to unearth interconnections between the matter of noise and its implications for the environment.

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This essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach to consider the meaning of “eco-crime” in the aquatic environment and draws on marine science, the study of criminal law and environmental law, and the criminology of environmental harms. It reviews examples of actions and behaviors of concern, such as offences committed by transnational organized crime and the legal and illegal over-exploitation of marine resources, and it discusses responses related to protection, prosecution and punishment, including proposals for an internationally accepted and enforced law of ecocide. One key element of the policy and practice of ending ecocide is the call to prioritize the adoption of technologies that are benign and renewable. Our essay concludes with a description of the “Almadraba” method of fishing to illustrate that there are ways in which the principles of sustainability and restoration can be applied in an ethical and just way in the context of modern fisheries.

Este trabajo explora críticamente la conceptualización jurídica y criminológica de los bienes (eco)globales y los derechos de los habitantes de la Tierra y examina las lagunas contemporáneas en materia de ecomigración y ecocidio, como contrapunto a los poderes globales, que ejercen una presión insostenible.

Este artículo, bajo el prisma de la criminología verde y la criminología cultural, analiza diversos aspectos del ruido en los espacios urbanos y subraya la convergencia sensitiva entre fenómenos ruidosos, odoríferos y lumínicos, como parte del enfoque de una criminología sensorial emergente “visual, olfativa y auditiva” y del estudio de los usos y significados estéticos de la vida urbana y cultural. Con el apoyo de la idea de una ciudad ecológica, también aborda un patrón de urbe que ofrezca un estilo de vida medioambientalmente más pacífico y menos conflictivo. A tal efecto, nos decantamos por incrementar el uso de métodos como los proporcionados por la sociología interpretativa, reinterpretados por la criminología cultural verde a través de técnicas dispares y sugerimos medidas alternativas a la pura sanción penal en la resolución de conflictos. El modelo cardinal del estudio integra diversas urbes del contexto español y europeo e incluye algunos arquetipos internacionales, itinerario que desemboca en la importancia de diseñar un “mapeo criminológico” de estos fenómenos y el empleo de metodología propia de la justicia restaurativa, para establecer los vínculos entre el espacio sensorial y el paisaje sonoro, y entre el delito o el daño social medioambiental.