The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources

T. Boekhout van Solinge

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730445.013.024

The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources

T. Boekhout van Solinge

Water Law and Governance (UCWOSL)

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Abstract

This essay discusses the involvement of organized crime in natural resource exploitation and trade. This is accomplished by examining case studies from different tropical regions in the world: Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and DR Congo), Southeast Asia (Indonesia), and Latin America (Brazilian Amazon). In doing so, a new or additional meaning is given to the economic concept of a resource curse. This contribution shows that such a recourse curse can be a crime curse, too.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime
Editors	Letizia Paoli
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	500-528
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730445.013.024
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

state crime
corporate crime
natural resources
illegal logging
deforestation
timber
gold
diamonds
violence
(armed) conflicts

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Researching illegal logging and deforestation
Boekhout van Solinge, T., 2014, In: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 3, 2, p. 35-48
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