Environmental justice refers broadly to the distribution of environmental benefits and
burdens, and the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental …

Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing is a major contributor to global overfishing,
threatening food security, maritime livelihoods, and fisheries sustainability. An emerging …

The blue economy is being promoted as capable of achieving sustainability and prosperity,
fair use of the ocean and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ensuring a more …

The rising global scarcity of natural resources increasingly attracts transnational criminal
organizations. Organized crime syndicates diversify into the lucrative business of tropical …

Indonesia's tuna fisheries sector encounters significant challenges in its development,
primarily due to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing practices that have led to …

Wildlife trafficking is considered to be an example of a transnational organized crime by
policymakers and enforcement agencies. Empirically, however, there is mixed support for …

Several studies have documented the increasing use of forced/trafficked labour on long-haul
fishing vessels, while others have documented illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) …

An artisanal shrimp trawl fishery operating illegally in northern Peru has high levels of
bycatch and three main commercial species. Here we provide the first characterisation of the …

Gold mining has become a significant new form of organized crime activity in Colombia,
where criminal groups continue to shift their operations from cocaine trafficking into gold …

This chapter delineates the concepts of displacement and convergence of transnational
crimes. Extant theorizing on crime displacement has typically focused on micro-level …