4th International Environmental Crime Conference

This year’s theme is Environmental Crime and Technology, and we are pleased to welcome four distinguished keynote speakers:

The conference will utilise ‘ignite’ presentations for researchers and practitioners to highlight current research and technologies. For attendees wishing to present (a maximum of 5 minutes and 18 slides), please see Registration and Submission details below.

A preliminary conference programme is provided below.

The International Environmental Crime Conference showcases leading research that highlights the intersection between Technology and Environmental Crime. In particular, it focuses on the way technology is used to facilitate and perpetrate environmental crime and respond to its challenges.

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing crimes internationally. Heightened awareness of the proliferation and scale of the harms involved is altering the way we view and interact with our world. In particular, people and places are linked in new ways through the rise of e-waste, transnational transportation and dumping of toxic waste, systematic and accidental pollution, and the illegal trafficking and destruction of flora and fauna, as examples. These crimes are interconnected and intertwined with technology. ‘Neutral’ technologies are utilised and applied, on the one hand to create and facilitate environmental harms, and on the other to provide innovative and vital solutions. From UAVs, satellite monitoring, big-data and smartphones to e-waste, GMOs and the internet trade in wildlife – technology continues to change the face of, and responses to, environmental crime.

This conference is organised by Jennifer Maher (University of South Wales), Toine Spapens (Tilburg University, Daan van Uhm (Utrecht University), Tanya Wyatt (Northumbria University), and Rob White (University of Tasmania).

Please direct any questions to the conference host Jennifer Maher (jenny.maher@southwales.ac.uk).

Persons wishing to attend must book online before 1 September 2017, using our Online Registration Form.

If you would like to present, please submit a title and short [maximum 100 words] abstract to the conference host jenny.maher@southwales.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 2017.