Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19582927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Ungar (0000-0002-5046-6146, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author), Juan Corredor-Garcia (0000-0002-0210-612X, The Graduate Center, CUNY) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 2281-2294 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | People and Nature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2575-8314 • E-ISSN: 2575-8314 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/pan3.70342 |
| OpenAlex | W7162195602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has four sections. First is the introduction, followed by a methods section that lays out the methodology, case, sources and relevant literature. The second section is a mixed methods analysis that explains three inter‐connected obstacles to enforcement: state capacity, organized crime and economic activities. Those conditions are then used to analyse actual cases in the years that Law 2111 has been in effect. The final section is a policy‐centred discussion to show how the article's analysis can be replicated for enforcement in other countries and how it can be applied to scholarship. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog
Amazon rainforest · Enforcement · Environmental law · Latin Americans · Law enforcement · Section (typography) · Environmental law and policy · Mining and Resource Management · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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The Treadmill of Crime
Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Future directions for applications of political economy in environmental and resource sociology
The Logic of “War on Deforestation”
Is it a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms
Nested complex crime
Narco‐frontiers
Conceptualizing Criminal Governance
Criminal Politics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |