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Environmental crime in Australia

Research and public policy series no. 109

Samantha Bricknell
ISBN 978 1 921532 64 1 ISSN 1836-2079
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, October 2010

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• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• Controls against environmental crimes
• Illegal trade in fauna and flora and harms to biodiversity
• Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing
• Illegal native vegetation clearing
• Illegal logging
• Water theft
• Building a research portfolio on environmental crime
• References
• Appendix

Abstract

Environmental crime encompasses a wide range of activities and behaviours, from carelessness to deliberate acts, that result in environmental harm. This report provides a comprehensive overview of environmental crime as it is perpetrated, detected and dealt with in Australia.