The Russian Far East’s illegal timber trade: an organized crime?
@article{Wyatt2014TheRF, title={The Russian Far East’s illegal timber trade: an organized crime?}, author={Tanya Wyatt}, journal={Crime, Law and Social Change}, year={2014}, volume={61}, pages={15-35} }
Transnational environmental crime is a global problem encompassing not only criminal violations of the law, but harms against the environment and the people reliant upon it as a natural resource. Grounded in the green criminological theory of eco-global criminology, this paper explores the transnational environmental crime of the illegal timber trade in the Russian Far East unpicking the threats to ecological well-being and the global nature and impacts of this crime. In researching…
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