Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-36814-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime provides a comprehensive and state of the art overview of wildlife crime in its various forms.

The effects of wildlife crime and over-exploitation are contributing to the possible extinction of one million species. These activities also harm human and non-human animals, ecosystems and communities. To understand and tackle these issues, this handbook presents critical approaches to the study of wildlife crime grounded in empirical, methodological, and conceptual perspectives. Curated for an international audience of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers its contributors are drawn from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and geographies. The handbook addresses recognised challenges associated with wildlife crime, including transnational security, the role of corporations, legislative frameworks and enforcement strategies, as well as broader concerns related to conservation, sustainable development, socio-environmental harm, and well-being. Importantly, it also delves into emerging areas, such as gender dynamics, digital markets and social media, social inequality and the marginalisation of vulnerable groups, and moral philosophy and ethics. This handbook equips readers to understand and respond to the multifaceted challenges of wildlife crime in the 21st century.

The Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime will be of great interest to students and scholars of wildlife crime, wildlife management and conservation, environmental crime, and green criminology more widely. The book will also be of use to practitioners and policymakers involved in developing and implementing strategies to reduce wildlife crime.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hubschle, Annette

Massé, Francis

Masse, Francis

Hübschle, Annette

Gutierrez, Laura

Gutiérrez, Laura

Wong, Rebecca W. Y.

Wyatt, Tanya

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Artenschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  Part I. Wildlife Crime’s Interfaces and Interconnections  2. Interfaces of Il/Legality in European Wildlife Trade 3. Wildlife crimes, harms and the role of masculinity in legal and illegal hunting 4. Understanding cultural use and spirituality: lion body-part trade in southern Africa 5. Corporations and Wildlife Crime: Causes, Contexts and Consequences 6. Camel races – tradition, sport and politics 7. Organised crime and wildlife trafficking  Part II. Critical Approaches, Methods, and Reflections on Researching Wildlife Crime 8. Zooming-in, zooming-out: Closing the gap between practices in the wildlife trade and associated theories 9. A framework for conducting research on consumer demand for high-value wildlife products in Asia  10. Estimating wildlife crime prevalence: quantitative methods & ethical considerations 11. The Commercial Poaching-Green Militarisation Nexus as Unsustainable Environmental Conflict  Part III. Emerging and Alternative Responses to Wildlife Crime 12. Ecocide as Wildlife Crime 13. Wildlife Harmscapes and Whole-of-Society Responses: Beyond Criminalisation Toward Inclusive Conservation 14. Responding to Illegal Wildlife Trade in Hong Kong, SAR, China 15. Southern perspectives on Wildlife Crime; Non-punitive responses to IUU in Argentina 16. Regulatory compliance and the illegal wildlife trade: A case study on the factors affecting rhino horn prescription by Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners in Guangdong province, China 17. Beyond CITES: the rationale for a global agreement against wildlife trafficking 18. Poaching, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunity Part IV. Emerging and Ongoing Issues in Wildlife Crime 19. Illegal captive breeding of wildlife 20. Shark fin trade in Hong Kong: forensic and investigative solutions 21. Legalisation and sustainable use as an alternative approach to tackling wildlife crime 22. ‘Denial of Injury’ and ‘Denial of the Victim’ in the (Illegal) Wildlife Trade: the case of the European eel 23. Wildlife Trafficking via Social Media: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation and Public Health in Brazil 24. Illegal wildlife trade in non-timber ornamental plants 25. Conclusion. Reflections on researching and understanding wildlife crime

Über Autor(innen)

Francis Massé is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. He takes a political ecology approach to examine the intersection of wildlife trade economies, conservation, and development.

Annette Hübschle is Chief Research Officer and Co-Director of the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research explores illicit economies, natural resource extraction, contested regulation, and the emergence of new harmscapes.

Laura Gutiérrez is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK, focusing on green criminology and socio-environmental harm.

Rebecca W.Y. Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks (2019).

Tanya Wyatt is the Lead Researcher on Crimes that Affect the Environment for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Research and Trend Analysis Branch. Previous to this role she was Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK.