Transnational Environmental Crime Project (TEC)

Project leader(s)
The Transnational Environmental Crime (TEC) project investigates emerging trends in transnational environmental crime and examines the conditions for successful regulatory and enforcement responses.
Transnational Environmental Crime – including wildlife smuggling, timber trafficking, the black market in ozone depleting substances and other regulated or prohibited chemicals and wastes, illegal fishing and the ‘new’ crime of carbon fraud – is estimated to be one of the fastest growing areas of global criminal activity. As well as the environmental impacts and costs involved, TEC presents significant regional and global challenges through the involvement of criminal groups and smuggling syndicates, and its links with cross-over crimes such as corruption, money laundering and fraud. Our research will generate empirical advances and theoretical innovation through the application of network models to an under-researched area of transnational crime and an improved knowledge base for the development of informed and effective policy-making, law enforcement and compliance tools.
Transnational Environmental Crime Project: Black trade, criminal networks and enforcement responses
The Transnational Environmental Crime (TEC) project at ANU, funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australian Government's Department of the Environment (DoE) under the ARC Linkage Scheme...
Transnational Environmental Crime (TEC) Workshop 2013
The Transnational Environmental Crime (TEC) Project team invite you to attend the TEC Workshop, to be held in Canberra on Wednesday, February 13 at the Australian National University. The workshop...
International Conference on Transnational Environmental Crime: illicit networks and enforcement networks
The Transnational Environmental Crime project, based in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University, will host an international conference in Canberra on 15...
Transnational Environmental Crime Project - official launch July 19 2011
There will be an official event to launch the Transnational Environmental Crime project. Date: 19 July 2011 Place: APCD Lecture Theatre, Hedley Bull Centre, Australian National University,...

Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime
Lorraine Elliott and William H. Schaedla, eds, Handbook of Transnational Environmental Crime, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016.

A Crime Pattern Analysis of the Illegal Ivory Trade in China
Jiang Nan, ‘A Crime Pattern Analysis of the Illegal Ivory Trade in China’, TEC Working Paper 1-2015, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International Relations, Australian National...

Building Organisational Capacity: The Role of Collaborative Research
Matthew Marshall and Grant Pink, ‘Building Organisational Capacity: The Role of Collaborative Research’, TEC Working Paper 2/2014, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International...

Governmental Discourses on Transnational Environmental Crime
Matthew Marshall, ‘Governmental Discourses on Transnational Environmental Crime’, TEC Working Paper 1-2014, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International Relations, Australian...

Transnational Environmental Crime Project: A Workshop Report
Sophie Saydan comp., Lorraine Elliott ed.,‘Transnational Environmental Crime Project: A Workshop Report’, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International Relations, Australian...

A Comparative Analysis of Wildlife Trafficking in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom
Tanya Wyatt, ‘A Comparative Analysis of Wildlife Trafficking in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom’, TEC Working Paper 6/2013, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of...

Law Enforcement Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime: Practical Considerations and Suggested Improvements Arising from an International Analysis
Grant Pink, ‘Law Enforcement Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime: Practical Considerations and Suggested Improvements Arising from an International Analysis’, TEC Working Paper 5/2013, Canberra:...

Law Enforcement Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime: Choices, Challenges, and Culture
Grant Pink, ‘Law Enforcement Responses to Transnational Environmental Crime: Choices, Challenges, and Culture’, TEC Working Paper 4/2013, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of...

Harnessing Third Parties for Transnational Environmental Protection
Julie Ayling, ‘Harnessing Third Parties for Transnational Environmental Protection’, TEC Working Paper 3/2013, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International Relations, Australian...

Policy Responses to Transnational Wildlife Crime in the Asia-Pacific: Part 2: Policy Responses at the National Level and Preliminary Gap Analysis
Dylan Horne, ‘Policy Responses to Transnational Wildlife Crime in the Asia-Pacific: Part 2: Policy Responses at the National Level and Preliminary Gap Analysis’, TEC Working Paper 2/2013, Canberra: Transnational...

Policy Responses to Transnational Wildlife Crime in the Asia-Pacific: Part 1: Global and Regional Policy Context and a Potential Framework for Optimal National Policy
Dylan Horne, ‘Policy Responses to Transnational Wildlife Crime in the Asia-Pacific: Part 1: Global and Regional Policy Context and a Potential Framework for Optimal National Policy’, TEC Working Paper 1-2013,...

What Sustains Wildlife Crime? Rhino Horn Trading and the Resilience of Criminal Networks
Julie Ayling, ‘What Sustains Wildlife Crime? Rhino Horn Trading and the Resilience of Criminal Networks’, TEC Working Paper 2/2012, Canberra: Transnational Environmental Crime Project, Department of International...
Links
International treaties
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
International organisations
International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE)
Waste Shipments Compliance and Enforcement Platform (WSCEP.ORG)
Non-governmental organisations
Environmental Investigation Agency
Research institutes
Chatham House Illegal Logging programme
Policy networks
Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators neTwork (AELERT)
Prof Emerita Lorraine Elliott
My research focuses on global governance and human security, transnational environmental crime, regional environmental governance in Southeast Asia, environmental security, climate security and...
Sophie Saydan
Sophie Saydan’s PhD research focuses on how non-state armed groups get international legitimacy. Specifically, she explores how some non-state armed groups have made the transition from...
Postal address
Transnational Environmental Crime Project
Department of International Relations
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
Hedley Bull Building
130 Garran Road
Acton ACT 2601 Australia
Telephone and fax
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F +61 (0)2 6125 8010