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The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources

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2014

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Boekhout van Solinge, T.ISNI 0000000067815790

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Paoli, Letizia

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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730445.013.024

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Abstract

This essay discusses the involvement of organized crime in natural resource exploitation and trade. This is accomplished by examining case studies from different tropical regions in the world: Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, and DR Congo), Southeast Asia (Indonesia), and Latin America (Brazilian Amazon). In doing so, a new or additional meaning is given to the economic concept of a resource curse. This contribution shows that such a recourse curse can be a crime curse, too.

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state crime, corporate crime, natural resources, illegal logging, deforestation, timber, gold, diamonds, violence, (armed) conflicts, SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Boekhout van Solinge, T 2014, The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources. in L Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 500-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199730445.013.024

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http://hdl.handle.net/1874/321361