Collaboration in Combating Environmental Crime: Making it Matter

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.

This chapter provides an introduction to the why and how of collaborative state intervention as this relates to environmental crime. It begins by identifying key response agencies and stakeholders and acknowledging the increasing need for and use of collaboration in combating environmental crime. It then engages in general consideration of the component parts and various phases of collaboration. This is followed by an examination of collaboration in practice, a discussion that draws upon examples of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal forms of collaboration. The chapter concludes by considering the challenges and opportunities associated with collaboration, and the importance of improving coordination and cooperation to combat environmental crime.