ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses criminal networks involved in the trafficking of protected wildlife, illegally logged wood and the black market in ozone depleting substances (ODS). It draws on criminological social network analysis, and approaches to networks developed in the fields of public policy and management and transaction cost economics in order to understand this business of organized crime. The seriousness of key transnational environmental crime sectors has been acknowledged at the global level. In March 2012, Interpol convened the first ever meeting of International Chiefs of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement. The chapter analyses criminal networks involved in the trafficking of protected wildlife, illegally logged wood and the black market in ODS. In order to understand this business of organized crime, this chapter draws on criminological social network analysis, and approaches to networks developed in the fields of public policy and management and transaction cost economics.
