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Ecological awareness as the basis of competitive economy through the prism of criminal offenses against environment

The anthropocentric intellection toward the environment, which has existed for almost two centuries, has led to a series of ecological problems on local, regional and global scale. By the 1960s ecological consciousness has been completely suppressed by the dominant anthropocentrism, which places the focus of its essence on human. The visible and "tangible" consequences of anthropogenic pressure on the environment resulted with the introduction of a modern approach to environmental protection. The culmination of the ecological crisis, at the end of the 20th century, has encouraged the development of ecological consciousness. The importance of sustainable development in the correlation with environmental protection, in terms of criminal justice repercussion, is increasingly reflected on the awareness of the necessity of emphasizing the ecocentric concept of environmental protection that focuses on a "natural environment" rather than "maintaining human living conditions". Insufficiently developed ecological awareness, in terms of unrecognition and unresponsiveness to the realization of the criminal offense in fild of environmental pollution, is still present in the 21st century, and was reflected in the "Pliva case" situation where the "welfare" of the chemical industry expansion gained primacy over environmental protection from pollution. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of ecological consciousness as a part of social consciousness, in the absence of which the criminal law regulation remains only a black letter on paper, as seen in the Pliva case. Also, it leads us to the conclusion that unreported environmental crimes contribute its relatively small and negligible share in the overall criminal structure.

anthropocentric conception of environmental protection, criminal offense of environmental pollution, ecocentric concepts of environmental protection, ecological awareness, environmental protection, sustainable development, Pliva case

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