Governance of the Illegal Trade in e-Waste and Tropical Timber Case Studies on Transnational Environmental Crime |
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Author:
| Bisschop, Lieselot |
Series title: | Green Criminology Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4724-1540-0 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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This book investigates the illegal trade in electronic waste and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime. The author employs a qualitative multi-method research approach combining document analysis, interviews with key informants and field visits, and focusses on the flows that pass through the research setting of the Port of Antwerp in Belgium and those between Europe and West and Central Africa. The study examines the emergence and social organization of...
More DescriptionThis book investigates the illegal trade in electronic waste and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime. The author employs a qualitative multi-method research approach combining document analysis, interviews with key informants and field visits, and focusses on the flows that pass through the research setting of the Port of Antwerp in Belgium and those between Europe and West and Central Africa. The study examines the emergence and social organization of these flows, the range of factors that together provide the motivations and opportunities, and their governance.