Fighting Environmental Crime in Europe and Beyond. The Role of the EU and Its Member States

This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and international research project on environmental crime in Europe, funded by the European Union (EU). European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE) was a 40-month research project that included eleven European research institutions and think tanks and was led by Ecologic Institute Berlin. EFFACE assessed the impacts of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy options for combating it from a multidisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the EU. As part of this project, numerous instances of environmental crime within and outside of the EU were studied and are now presented in this volume.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction | Ragnhild Sollund
• A Paradigm Shift in Environmental Criminal Law | Michael G. Faure
• Victims in the ‘Land of Fires’: Illegal Waste Disposal in the Campania Region, Italy | Anna Rita Germani, Giacomo D’Alisa, Pasquale Marcello Falcone & Piergiuseppe Morone
• Tackling Illegal Fisheries: The Role of Rights–Based Management | Stephanie Newman & Andrew Farmer
• Wildlife Trafficking: Harms and Victimization | Jennifer Maher & Ragnhild Sollund
• Illegal Shipments of E–waste from the EU to China | Andrea Illés & Kristof Geeraerts
• The EU Action to Protect the Environment in Kosovo and to Fight Environmental Crime | Teresa Fajardo del Castillo
• Armenia: A Case Study on Mining | Christoph H. Stefes & Pete Theodoratos
• Summary of Findings and the Way Forward | Christoph H. Stefes & Anna Rita Germani