Transnational environmental crime and its governance: case study research on illegal transports of e-waste and tropical timber

This article discusses the topic of transnational environmental crime and its governance. After illustrating the social relevance of and scientific attention for transnational environmental crime this article turns to a discussion of the implications for the governance paradigm. This raises a number of topics which are subject of analysis in the PhD research about the cases of illegal transports of e-waste and tropical timber within a European research setting. This article explains how this can improve the understanding about transnational environmental crime and its governance. It argues that this topic deserves continued societal and scientific attention