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Taking green harms more seriously: the role of emergent tehnologies in preventing environmental crimes and forest corruption
Sat, September 6, 8:00 to 9:15am, Communications Building (CN), CN 3104Abstract
Environmental crimes are threatening not only nature conservation values, but also the overall humans living conditions. In particular, forest degradation and deforestation have to be avoided for climate change mitigation’s sake. Emerging technologies can help prevent and detect the environmental crimes more effectively. The aim of this study is to assess the progress in the scientific knowledge about the use of emergent technologies in preventing and detecting forest crimes, with an application to Romania. We explore the potential use of emergent technologies in approaching the use of forest resource as a system of interconnected components, structured by the simulation modeling of timber legal traceability system. Our review of the literature highlight the following emergent technologies ready to use or implemented as pilot-studies in timber traceability systems: AI-powered satellite monitoring and road-located video monitoring for real-time illegal logging and illegal transportation detection; drones with LiDAR scanning; logging records secured to prevent data manipulation, assorted or not with smart technologies along the supply chain and with a wood-balance analysis; applications such Forest Inspector to allow citizen involvement in reporting illegal activities. We have evaluated for each of them the possibility of integration with the legal logging system in force in Romania (Sumal 2.0) and their capacity to prevent corruption-related forest degradation or to contribute to the assessment of the forest harm value in the light of jurisprudence and new Forest Code rules. Based on the review of emergent technologies and the current design of Sumal 2.0, we formulate recommendation for further improvements of the existing timber legal traceability system.