Handbook of transnational environmental crime / edited by Lorraine Elliott, William H. Schaedla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliott, Lorraine, editor.

Schaedla, William H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Offenses against the environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (547 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Crimes associated with the illegal trade in wildlife, timber and fish stocks, pollutants and waste have become increasingly transnational, organized and serious. They warrant attention because of their environmental consequences, their human toll, their impacts on the rule of law and good governance, and their links with violence, corruption and a range of crossover crimes. This ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary Handbook brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine key sectors in transnational environmental crime and to explore its most significant conceptual, operational an

Contents:

Part I context and scene-setting

1. Transnational environmental crime: excavating the complexities - an introduction / Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla

2. Criminal networks and illicit chains of custody in transnational environmental crime / Lorraine Elliott

3. Local sociocultural, economic and political facilitators of transnational wildlife crime / William H. Schaedla

4. The securitization of transnational environmental crime and the militarization of conservation / Lorraine Elliott

5. Criminality and costs: the human toll of transnational environmental crime / Sophie Saydan

Part II key sectors and case studies

6. The illegal wildlife trade in global perspective / Rosaleen Duffy

7. The uncharismatic and unorganized side to wildlife smuggling / Tanya Wyatt

8. Fisheries crime / Eve De Coning

9. Forest crimes and the international trade in illegally logged timber / David Humphreys

10. Illegal trade in hazardous waste / Lieselot Bisschop

11. Illegal trade in ozone depleting substances / Ning Liu, Vira Somboon and Carl Middleton

12. Crimes in the carbon market / Carole Gibbs and Michael Cassidy

13. Greater china and transnational environmental crime: understanding criminal networks and enforcement responses / Yunbo Jiao

14. Wildlife trade in South Asia / Samir Sinha

Part III governance, agency and strategies

15. Multilateral environmental agreements and illegality / Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann

16. International jurisdictional challenges in the suppression of transnational environmental crime / Gregory Rose

17. Reducing demand for illicit wildlife products: crafting a 'whole-of-society' response / Julie Ayling

18. Witnessing wens: origins and future directions / William H. Schaedla and Samir Sinha

19. Forensics in transnational environmental crime / Rob Ogden

Part IV practitioner contributions

20. The Montreal protocol and ozonaction networks / Ezra Clark

21. The Basel convention: a tool for combating environmental crime and enhancing the management of hazardous and other wastes / Tatiana Terekhova

22. The role of cites in ensuring sustainable and legal trade in wild fauna and flora / Margarita África Clemente Muñoz

23. Interpol's nest: building capability and capacity to respond to transnational environmental crime / Grant Pink

24. The evolving role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in fighting wildlife and forest crimes / Giovanni Broussard

25. The international consortium on combating wildlife crime (ICCWC) / Edward van Asch

26. Eu-twix: ten years of information exchange and co-operation between wildlife law enforcement officials in Europe / Vinciane Sacré

27. Transnational environmental crime: more than an enforcement problem / Daniel W.S. Challender and Douglas C. Macmillan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78347-623-0