Oxford LibGuides: Environmental Law: Crime & Ecocide

Environmental crime, ecocide, green criminology

Subject search to find books on SOLO:
Offenses against the environment
Offenses against the environment -- Law and legislation
Nature -- Effect of human beings on

Wild animal trade -- Corrupt practices
Wildlife smuggling
Poaching
Poaching -- Prevention
Wildlife crimes

Eco-Global Crimes by Rune Ellefsen; Guri Larsen; Ragnhild Sollund
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 1409434923
Publication Date: 2012
Print copy is at Internat 610 E45.5a
Prosecuting Environmental Harm Before the International Criminal Court by Matthew Gillett
Call Number: Internat 610 G479.5a
ISBN: 9781316512692
Publication Date: 2022
Emerging Issues in Green Criminology by Diane Westerhuis (Editor); Reece Walters (Editor); Tanya Wyatt (Editor)
Call Number: Crim 500 W235.3b
ISBN: 1137273976
Publication Date: 2013

Campaign to add Ecocide to crimes actionable in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A mock trial held in London in 2012 to lobby for recognition of Ecocide
Free resource.
Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide COMMENTARY AND CORE TEXT
June 2021
Ecocide Law
This website is under development to become a comprehensive legal, historical and academic resource on Ecocide Law
Ecocide: A New Avenue for Climate Justice?
Open access.
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law and replacing Directive 2008/99/EC
Open Access

CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Read online or download pdf from official website. [Published as 993 UNTS 243. Entered into force 1 July 1975]
Convention on the Protection of Environment through Criminal Law ETS No.: 172
Free resource. Part of the COE Treaty Office website. Requires 3 ratifications before it will EIF
EC Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law
Available form Eur-Lex. See the proposal to replace this in Ecocide box to the right
European Commission: Environmental Crime
Part of Official website. Directive 2008/99/EC on the protection of the environment through criminal law
EUROPOL
Official website. Europol is the European Union’s law enforcement agency. Our main goal is to achieve a safer Europe for the benefit of all the EU citizens.
EFFACE: EU action to fight environmental crime [ARCHIVE]
Static legacy website of "a 40-month EU funded research project. Eleven European research institutions and think tanks were involved. EFFACE assessed the impacts of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy options for combating it from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the EU. It ended in March 2016."
IMPEL: European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law
Partially free resource. A network committed to supporting the effective application of EU environmental la. "[IMPEL] is an international association of environmental authorities in Europe. The network is committed to contribute to a more effective application of EU environmental law by capacity buiding, awareness raising, sharing good practices, providing guidance and tools, enforcement cooperation and giving feed back to lawmakers and regulators on the practicability and enforceability of environmental legislation."
Institute for Environmental Security (IES)
Official website. Followin the linked called Library to find a lot of reports etc free to download.
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An international non-profit non-governmental organisation established in 2002, it has established a " "knowledge and action network" ... to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help prevent conflict, instability and unrest."
The Institute's mission is: "To advance global environmental security by promoting the maintenance of the regenerative capacity of life-supporting eco-systems."
Its multidisciplinary approach integrates the fields of science, diplomacy, law, finance and education. Activities are designed to provide policy-makers with a methodology to tackle environmental security risks in time, in order to safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development."
INTERPOL: Environmental Crime
Official website. This link takes you through to specific section of the INTERPOL site.
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto
On UNODC's official website.
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Wildlife and Forest Crime
Official website Part of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime which despite the apparent limitation of its name is interested in other types of transnational crimes and the enforcement of laws.
World Wildlife Crime Reports
Free downloads from UNODC official website. Scroll down to near foot of page for the 2016 report.
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Reports on world crime trends 2010 -
Official website

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