• E4J University Module Series: Wildlife Crime

• Module 4: Illegal exploitation of wild flora
  

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Wild flora as the target of illegal trafficking
  • Purposes for which wild flora is illegally targeted
  • How is it done and who is involved?
  • Consequences of harms to wild flora
  • Criminal justice responses
  • References

• Exercises

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in January 2022

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Antonelli, A., Fry, C., Smith, R. J., Simmonds, M. S. J., Kersey, P. J., Pritchard, H. W. & Qi, Y. D. (2020). State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2020.
• Boekhout van Solinge, T. (2014). Researching illegal logging and deforestation. Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 3(2), 35-48.
• Cao, N. A. (2018). Timber trafficking in Vietnam: Crime, security and the environment. Springer.
• FAO and UNEP (2020). The State of the World’s Forests 2020. Forests, biodiversity and people. Rome.
• Humphreys, D. (2016). Forest crimes and the international trade in illegally logged timber. Handbook of transnational environmental crime. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Marteache, N., & Pires, S. F. (2020). Choice structuring properties of natural resource theft: An examination of redwood burl poaching. Deviant Behavior, 41(3), 311-328.

 

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