(Preliminary) Results of the EFFACE Research Project

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(Preliminary) Results of the EFFACE Research Project

Presentation
Date
Location
Tilburg, Netherlands
Speech
Grazia Maria Vagliasindi
Dr. Christiane Gerstetter

In this presentation, Grazia Maria Vagliasindi, University of Catania, and Christiane Gerstetter, Ecologic Institute, presented the results of the EU-funded research project "European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime" (EFFACE) to an audience of criminologists and police officers. The presentation is available for download.

EFFACE is a 40-month EU-funded research project. Eleven European research institutions and think tanks are involved. EFFACE assesses the impacts of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy options for combating it from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the EU.

The environmental crime seminar is a regular event, bringing together experts interested in the topic of environmental crime.

Environmental crime and the EU - what have we learnt?

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