Trade and illicit markets

Lorraine Elliott

Chapter 2 in Transnational Environmental Crime, 2026, pp 13-28 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter introduces illegal environmental trade as a criminal market that functions as a form of deviant globalization. Those involved in the illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances and substitutes, timber, and wild fauna and flora take advantage of the infrastructure of a globalized economy that lends itself equally to legal and illegal transactions: transportation and communications networks; global financial systems; and the internet. It foreshadows transnational environmental crime (TEC) supply and demand practices as those embedded in uncritical markets and a political economy of lootable commodities that are assumed to be high in value with low barriers to entry and extraction. The core of the chapter investigates the literature on global production networks and global commodity chains and its relevance to understanding TEC trade and markets as a function of material factors of labour, supply, and production.

Keywords: Deviant Globalization; Lootable Commodities; Commodity Displacement; Shadow State Economies; Global Commodity Chains; Global Production Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035374359
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