ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a variety of methods, tools and routes that can be employed to research environmental harms and crimes, noting that such research tends to be international in scope and politically sensitive, and highlighting the significance of looking to the future as well as to the present and the past. The chapter considers: when to conduct research; questions regarding the geographical scale of research; what data to collect and how; and issues pertaining to knowledge and voice. Key topics in this chapter relate to the practice of horizon scanning, socio-legal analysis, case studies, ethnography and cross-national comparison in the area of green criminological research. The chapter opens avenues for research by both beginning and seasoned scholars of green criminology, while at the same time lending a lens through which readers might more fully appreciate the range of methodologies employed by authors throughout the second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology.
