A Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law by Pereira, Ricardo; Fajardo, Teresa;

Series: Elgar Research Agendas;

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Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Date of Publication 20 June 2025

ISBN 9781803929941
Binding Hardback
No. of pages334 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 628 g
Language English

Long description:

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in each area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

This Research Agenda identifies emerging priorities and future trends in the field of environmental crime and law, demonstrating how global environmental threats are shaping new academic and legal approaches. It evaluates the current state of scholarship and outlines the evolution of the law, while examining ontological questions about environmental law enforcement.

Chapter authors explore which breaches of environmental law should be criminalized and what types and levels of penalties are optimal for ensuring deterrent effects. Addressing the role of criminal law in environmental protection, they discuss the multi-disciplinarity of the study of environmental crime, shedding light on the criminological and socio-legal contexts in which environmental criminals operate. Leading experts provide insight into key research methodologies and topical themes such as transnational corporate crimes, ecocide, artificial intelligence, biodiversity crime and climate justice.

A Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law is a vital resource for students and academics seeking to understand the state-of-the-art and to push boundaries in criminal law, environmental law, international law and human rights research. Its forward-thinking insights will also greatly benefit policymakers in environmental crime and law enforcement, as well as NGOs and civil society organisations in environmental protection.

This Research Agenda evaluates the current state of scholarship in the field of environmental crime and law, identifying priority areas and future trends in academic research. It explores the evolution of the law, accounting for current and new global environmental threats and examining ontological questions around environmental law enforcement. Leading experts provide insight into research methodologies and topical themes, such as transnational corporate crimes, ecocide, artificial intelligence, biodiversity crime and climate justice.

‘A Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law provides a comprehensive and stimulating addition to the discourse. The editors have managed to bring together a distinguished list of authors, with contributions from within and beyond the traditions of legal discussion. Faure and Lopik provide an excellent contribution on research methodologies relevant to the field, while several chapters also offer an analysis from a green criminological lens, including on non-human or animal rights and ecocide with ‘green criminology’ heavyweights, South and Di Ronco, exploring issues of environmental restorative justice. Key areas of law are included, such as illegal wildlife taking and biodiversity-related crimes, as well as new areas such as crimes in relation to climate change. A number of chapters also touch on new perspectives for prosecuting environmental crimes by specific actors, such as imposing imprisonment on corporations, and several contribute to current debates, such as the pivotal and timely call for regulation of ecocide. A fascinating addition to the field is the chapter on AI and environmental crime, which explores the value of AI in detecting and predicting environmental crimes, including at sea, together with its potential to enhance corporate compliance.’

Contents
Preface xi
1 Introduction: a panoramic view of global environmental criminal law research 1
Ricardo Pereira and Teresa Fajardo
PART I METHODOLOGIES FOR AND THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL LAW RESEARCH
2 Methods for environmental criminal law research 27
Michael Faure and Sjoerd Lopik
3 Transnational environmental crime across global supply chains: a place for due diligence? 43
Carolyn Abbot and Gary Lynch-Wood
4 Towards a new agenda for ecocide norms adoption and enforcement 65
Thomas Obel Hansen
5 Biodiversity crime 91
Ludwig Krämer
6 The effectiveness of environmental criminal law enforcement 109
Juan Luis Fuentes Osorio
7 Enforceable undertakings as an alternative to prosecution in Australian environmental law enforcement 133
Sarah Wright and Victoria Colvin
PART II GREEN CRIMINOLOGY AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
8 The global illegal wildlife trade crisis 165
Angus Nurse
9 Environmental harms, ecocidal trends and restorative responses: some interdisciplinary directions 185
Anna Di Ronco and Nigel South
10 A green criminology perspective on animal rights 203
Ragnhild Sollund
PART III PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF LEGAL AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH: NEW AND EMERGING THEMES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL LAW
11 Climate change and criminal justice 221
Stephan Sina
12 Artificial Intelligence and environmental crime 241
Stefano Porfido and Alberto Quintavalla
13 Imprisonment as an alternative to financial punishments on corporations for environmental offenses 263
Gabriel Hallevy
14 International institutions and the fight against transnational environmental crimes 285
Teresa Fajardo and Ricardo Pereira