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Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime — Making it Matter

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Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention

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Responding to environmental crime involves a wide range of collaborations across many different domains and sectors. This is especially the case when addressing transnational environmental crime and its associated global environmental harms.

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Pink, G., White, R. (2016). Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime — Making it Matter. In: Pink, G., White, R. (eds) Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention. Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56257-9_1

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