The Environmental Futures Project’s focus is on the governance (understood as the shaping of the flow of events) of the ecosystems of illegal economies by a wide variety of nodes — state and non-state, public-private, legal-illegal. Understanding the governance of safety and security is thus the point of departure, with a specific focus on illegal wildlife economies and the ecosystems that support them, as well as their intersections with legal economies.
A forthcoming book with Annette Hubschle is titled Conservation, the Illegal Wildlife Trade and Local Communities. It will be published by Routledge.
Clifford Shearing 