Simple Summary Central America is a region that possesses distinct ecological and
socioeconomic characteristics, making it increasingly vulnerable to vector-borne diseases …

A growing body of evidence suggests that criminal organizations across the Global South
actively exploit natural resources in the communities where they operate with important …

Illegal logging significantly contributes to the climate crisis, as trees are vital for converting
carbon dioxide into oxygen. This study examines how tourism can reduce the impact of …

Despite decades of efforts to curb the global supply of illicit drugs and significant shifts in
how those efforts are designed and implemented, illicit crop cultivation persists. In this …

Fieldwork is often framed as an individualistic rite of passage, wherein the researcher is a
'neutral'observer, thereby obscuring gender, racial and citizenship hierarchies. Feminist …

Illicit economies have become a major driver of socio-environmental change in Latin
America's rural spaces. The arrival of transnational drug trade networks in rural communities …

This paper explores illegal coca crop expansion in indigenous Amazonian communities in
Peru. The ethnographic study sheds light on the historical development of these areas as …

Recent research increasingly illustrates that illicit economies, especially drug production
and trafficking, may result in environmental destruction as well as violence and human rights …

Despite the global reach and economic scale of cocaine trafficking, our best geographic
understanding of the global trade remains coarse. A more spatially disaggregated …

On frontiers dominated by illicit activities such as narcotrafficking, criminal organizations'
usurpation of land and resources is profoundly changing rural livelihoods and prospects for …