This book examines the role and practical dynamics of governmental environmental law enforcement agencies and individuals who combat environmental crime. It will inform researchers about the 'real world' experiences of practitioners and provide an intellectual space for practitioners to examine critically what it is they do and why.

Table of Contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• Foreword - Malcolm K. Sparrow
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Part I The Role of Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime
• 1 Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime - Making it Matter - Grant Pink and Rob White
• 2 International Compliance and Enforcement Networks: The Critical Role of Collaboration in Environmental Protection - Gunnar Baldwin Jr, Jo Gerardu, Meredith R. Koparova, and Henk Ruessink
• 3 Capacity Building and Collaboration: Enforcement Training to Build Capacity that Ensures Environmental Protection - Davis Jones and Ivan Honorato
• Part II The Role of Institutions in Collaboration
• 4 Interagency Collaboration and Combating Wildlife Crime - Mariya Polner and Daniel Moell
• 5 Organisational Consortiums: The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) - John E. Scanlon and Lisa Farroway
• 6 Collaboration at the Front Line: INTERPOL and NGOs in the Same NEST - David Higgins and Rob White
• Part III The Operational Aspects of Collaboration
• 7 Collaboration and Consultancy, Tackling Environmental Crime, and Delivering Environment Protection - Campbell Gemmell, Simon Bingham, and Nancy Isarin
• 8 Collaborative Relationships with the Courts: The Prosecutor's Perspective - Anne Brosnan and Paul Taylor
• 9 Port-to-Port Collaboration - Henk Ruessink, Deborah Kopsick, Robert Heiss, and Meredith R. Koparova
• Part IV The Role of Research in Collaboration
• 10 Coordinating Research Efforts on Environmental Crime - Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia, Juha Hintsa, Elise Vermeersch, and Sangeeta Mohanty
• 11 Collaborative Research as a Tool for Building Environmental Regulatory Capability - Matthew Marshall and Grant Pink
• 12 Researchers and Practitioners: Building Collaboration for Evidence-Based Policy-Making - Robyn Bartel and Samantha Bricknell