Governance of the Illegal Trade in E-Waste and Tropical Timber

This book investigates the illegal trade in electronic waste and tropical timber, major forms of transnational environmental crime. The author employs a qualitative multi-method research approach combining document analysis, interviews with key informants and field visits, and focusses on the flows that pass through the research setting of the Port of Antwerp in Belgium and those between Europe and West and Central Africa. The study examines the emergence and social organization of these flows, the range of factors that together provide the motivations and opportunities, and their governance.