The challenges of transnational environmental crime

Lorraine Elliott

Chapter 1 in Transnational Environmental Crime, 2026, pp 1-12 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter introduces transnational environmental crime (TEC) – the illegal movement across borders of species, resources, and pollutants in contravention of domestic law or in violation of prohibition or regulation regimes established by multilateral environmental agreements and regional compliance frameworks – as serious, transnational, and organized. It explains how and why the study draws on international political economy to understand networks of criminal and illegal practice, starting from the premise that if TEC is, across all sectors, a transnational enterprise in pursuit of profit, then we need to know how this business works as business! The chapter suggests that insights from the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks can help to focus on the mechanics of TEC markets and trade, including labour and work, the spatial organization of production, and calculations of efficiency and risk.

Keywords: Transnational Environmental Crime; Global Commodity Chains; Global Production Networks; Illegal Trade; Criminal Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035374359
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