Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law

Edited by Ricardo Pereira, Reader in Transnational Law, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, UK and Teresa Fajardo, Professor of International Law and International Relations, University of Granada, Spain

• ContentsPreface xi1 Introduction: a panoramic view of global environmental criminal law research 1Ricardo Pereira and Teresa FajardoPART I METHODOLOGIES FOR AND THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL LAW RESEARCH2 Methods for environmental criminal law research 27Michael Faure and Sjoerd Lopik3 Transnational environmental crime across global supply chains: a place for due diligence? 43Carolyn Abbot and Gary Lynch-Wood4 Towards a new agenda for ecocide norms adoption and enforcement 65Thomas Obel Hansen5 Biodiversity crime 91Ludwig Krämer6 The effectiveness of environmental criminal law enforcement 109Juan Luis Fuentes Osorio7 Enforceable undertakings as an alternative to prosecution in Australian environmental law enforcement 133Sarah Wright and Victoria ColvinPART II GREEN CRIMINOLOGY AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME8 The global illegal wildlife trade crisis 165Angus Nurse9 Environmental harms, ecocidal trends and restorative responses: some interdisciplinary directions 185Anna Di Ronco and Nigel South10 A green criminology perspective on animal rights 203Ragnhild SollundPART III PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF LEGAL AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH: NEW AND EMERGING THEMES IN ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL LAW11 Climate change and criminal justice 221Stephan Sina12 Artificial Intelligence and environmental crime 241Stefano Porfido and Alberto Quintavalla13 Imprisonment as an alternative to financial punishments on corporations for environmental offenses 263Gabriel Hallevy14 International institutions and the fight against transnational environmental crimes 285Teresa Fajardo and Ricardo Pereira

‘The volume is comprehensive in scope, methodologically diverse, and rich in references. It offers not only a synthesis of existing scholarship but also a forward-looking and critical engagement with emerging challenges. [...] A timely and valuable resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with the legal protection of the environment.’