Dear Gep-ed colleagues This is a call for assistance in identifying potential contributors to a forthcoming edited volume on transnational environmental crime (TEC).
I've been leading a TEC research program , funded for the last three years by the Australian Research Council and the Australian federal Department of the Environment (see http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ir/tec). Our focus has been on wildlife smuggling, timber trafficking, the black markets in ODS and waste (including e-waste), with some new work by one of our team on fisheries crime. In many of these sectors, Gep-Ed participants and other folk are doing fantastic work that focuses on environmental consequences. Our interest has been directed more to understanding the illegal trade itself - illicit supply chains/chains of custody, criminal networks and how they manage logistic trails, transnational enforcement responses, etc. UK academic publishers Edward Elgar Publishing have commissioned me to prepare the 'definitive' edited volume on TEC for their Handbook series (many of you will be familiar with this concept and/or the Handbook volumes themselves). My US-based colleague Dr Bill Schaedla (formerly head of TRAFFIC Southeast Asia) will join me as co-editor. We have an exciting line up of contributors in the pipeline but there are a few gaps for which we have not yet identified key authors. So I'm putting out the call for help. Some of you may have worked on these themes in the past (see below) and would be keen to reprise that interest. Some may have been working in this area but not yet published (which is why we might be having difficulty finding you), or you may know of others who have a research interest in these issues, so please do feel free to pass this email on. These are our gaps: * TEC and cross-over crimes: corruption, fraud and money-laundering * TEC and the BRICS (exploring how various TEC sectors play out in the BRICS countries as market, source, transhipment and how they are engaged globally in responding, as well as engaging critically with those debates about linking 'development' to particular kinds of illicit resource extraction/harvesting, etc.) * The black market in ozone-depleting substances (this might seem curious but there seems to have been a drop off in published work on the Montreal Protocol, and what is around doesn't necessarily focus extensively on the illegal trade) * MEAs and illegality (I'm trying to avoid writing this one myself - the focus here would be on how the three key MEAs - Montreal Protocol, CITES and Basel - each of which are environmental treaties not crime treaties - have addressed the issue of illegal trade and criminality (and each has done so differently) * Bilateral, plurilateral and regional responses - there's lots happening in various parts of the world and in various TEC sectors that seeks to implement key MEAs at a regional or sub-regional level or that establishes intergovernmental arrangements outside the MEA framework; so we would anticipate that a chapter on this would provide an overview, assess outcomes, perhaps link with some of the global governance literature on 'scale', * Trade bans and sanctions - many of us are familiar with the debates about whether trade bans work to enhance conservation and environmental protection efforts but for this chapter we are keen to see this linked with the issues of illegality and criminality: eg does banning trade in endangered species (including flora) or waste, etc encourage illegality and illegal trade (or does it 'define' it); does allowing trade such as one-off sales of stockpiled ivory actually stimulate demand for illegal sources * TEC and enforcement networks - the focus here is on a coordinated operations and transnational/international law enforcement networks more generally - is anyone working on this specifically in a TEC context (eg Interpol's various operations; Project-Skyhole Patching; etc etc) Please feel free to contact me off-list. I can provide a short report back to the list updating colleagues on who is working on these topics. Kind regards Lorraine Professor Lorraine Elliott | Department of International Relations | School of International, Political and Strategic Studies| College of Asia and the Pacific | The Australian National University | Canberra ACT 0200 | Australia | T: +61 2 6125 0589| F: +61 2 6125 8010 | E: [email protected] | http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ir/tec -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
