Staff profile

• 1. The Securitisation of Conservation & Wildlife Crime
• 2. Political Ecologies of Zoonoses and Infectious Animal Disease
• 3. Conservation Health Security
• 4. The Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife Conservation
• francis.d.masse@durham.ac.uk

Chapter in book

• The commercial poaching-green militarisation nexus as unsustainable environmental conflict
  
  Lunstrum, E. (Libby), Givá, N., & Massé, F. (2025). The commercial poaching-green militarisation nexus as unsustainable environmental conflict. In F. Massé, A. Hübschle, L. Gutiérrez, R. W. Wong, & T. Wyatt (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime (pp. 135-145). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333906-13
• Women in the Rhino Poaching Conflict: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis
  
  Massé, F., Givá, N., & Lunstrum, E. (2022). Women in the Rhino Poaching Conflict: A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis. In H. U. Agu & M. L. Gore (Eds.), Women and Wildlife Trafficking: Participants, Perpetrators and Victims (pp. 87-105). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121831-9
• The Integration of Conservation and Security: Political Ecologies of Violence and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
  
  Duffy, R., & Massé, F. (2021). The Integration of Conservation and Security: Political Ecologies of Violence and the Illegal Wildlife Trade. In J. Sowers, S. D. VanDeveer, & E. Weinthal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics (pp. 814-830). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197515037.013.36

Edited book

• Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime
  
  Massé, F., Hübschle, A., Gutiérrez, L., Wong, R. W. Y., & Wyatt, T. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Wildlife Crime. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003333906

Journal Article

• How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia
  
  Bersaglio, B., Enns, C., Hichoonga, E., Masse, F., Sommerville, M., & van Vliet, N. (2026). How uneven access shapes the socio‐economic and environmental potential of game meat value chains: The case of legal game meat in Zambia. People and Nature, 8(10), 3284-3297. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70021
• Wild animal attacks and other occupational risks perceived by Indigenous hunters and fishers in the Yangambi landscape
  
  van Vliet, N., Massé, F., Muhindo, J., Nyumu, J., Mbangale, E., & Shephard, S. (2025). Wild animal attacks and other occupational risks perceived by Indigenous hunters and fishers in the Yangambi landscape. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 30(5), 586-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2024.2394595
• Demilitarizing Conservation
  
  Lunstrum, E., Massé, F., Ashaba, I. M., Dutta, A., Marijnen, E., Mushonga, T., & Matose, F. (2025). Demilitarizing Conservation. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2534550
• Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure
  
  Massé, F., & Gladkova, E. (2025). Spatializing zoonotic disease dynamics from a political ecology perspective: Reconceptualizing spillover as structure. Journal of Political Ecology, 32(1), Article 5810. https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5810
• Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  Enns, C., van Vliet, N., Mbane, J., Muhindo, J., Nyumu, J., Bersaglio, B., Massé, F., Cerutti, P. O., & Nasi, R. (2023). Vulnerability and coping strategies within wild meat trade networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. World Development, 170, Article 106310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106310
• Labour perspectives on frontline conservation work
  
  Masse, F. (2023). Labour perspectives on frontline conservation work. Current Conservation, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.48350/184076
• Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction
  
  Margulies, J. D., Massé, F., & VandeBerg, B. (2023). Illicit geographies and contested environments: An introduction. Political Geography, 101, Article 102818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102818
• The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict
  
  Lunstrum, E., Givá, N., Massé, F., Mate, F., & Jose, P. L. (2023). The rhino horn trade and radical inequality as environmental conflict. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3), 1085-1105. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1961130
• Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains
  
  van Vliet, N., Muhindo, J., Nyumu, J., Enns, C., Massé, F., Bersaglio, B., Cerutti, P., & Nasi, R. (2022). Understanding Factors that Shape Exposure to Zoonotic and Food-Borne Diseases Across Wild Meat Trade Chains. Human Ecology, 50(6), 983-995. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-022-00361-1
• Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state
  
  Massé, F. (2022). Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state. Political Geography, 97, Article 102627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102627
• Disaster Making in the Capitalocene
  
  O’Lear, S., Masse, F., Dickinson, H., & Duffy, R. (2022). Disaster Making in the Capitalocene. Global Environmental Politics, 22(3), 2-11. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00655
• Wildlife trafficking via social media in Brazil
  
  Wyatt, T., Miralles, O., Massé, F., Lima, R., da Costa, T. V., & Giovanini, D. (2022). Wildlife trafficking via social media in Brazil. Biological Conservation, 265, Article 109420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109420
• Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes
  
  Challender, D. W., Brockington, D., Hinsley, A., Hoffmann, M., Kolby, J. E., Massé, F., Natusch, D. J., Oldfield, T. E., Outhwaite, W., ’t Sas‐Rolfes, M., & Milner‐Gulland, E. (2022). Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes. Conservation Letters, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12832
• A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa
  
  Massé, F., Givá, N., & Lunstrum, E. (2021). A feminist political ecology of wildlife crime: The gendered dimensions of a poaching economy and its impacts in Southern Africa. Geoforum, 126, 205-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.031
• Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand
  
  Magliocca, N., Torres, A., Margulies, J., McSweeney, K., Arroyo-Quiroz, I., Carter, N., Curtin, K., Easter, T., Gore, M., Hübschle, A., Massé, F., Rege, A., & Tellman, E. (2021). Comparative Analysis of Illicit Supply Network Structure and Operations: Cocaine, Wildlife, and Sand. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 3(1), 50-73. https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.76
• From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation
  
  Kashwan, P., V. Duffy, R., Massé, F., Asiyanbi, & Marijnen, E. (2021). From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63(4), 4-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2021.1924574
• Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching
  
  Kuiper, T., Massé, F., Ngwenya, N. A., Kavhu, B., Mandisodza‐Chikerema, R. L., & Milner‐Gulland, E. J. (2021). Ranger perceptions of, and engagement with, monitoring of elephant poaching. People and Nature, 3(1), 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10154
• The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance
  
  Massé, F., & Margulies, J. D. (2020). The geopolitical ecology of conservation: The emergence of illegal wildlife trade as national security interest and the re-shaping of US foreign conservation assistance. World Development, 132, Article 104958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104958
• Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas
  
  Massé, F. (2020). Conservation Law Enforcement: Policing Protected Areas. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(3), 758-773. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1630249
• Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference
  
  Masse, F., Dickinson, H., Margulies, J., Joanny, L., duffy, rosaleen, & Lappe-Osthege, T. (2020). Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference. Journal of Political Ecology, 27(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23543
• Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development
  
  Gore, M. L., Braszak, P., Brown, J., Cassey, P., Duffy, R., Fisher, J., Graham, J., Justo-Hanani, R., Kirkwood, A. E., Lunstrum, E., Machalaba, C., Massé, F., Manguiat, M., Omrow, D., Stoett, P., Wyatt, T., & White, R. (2019). Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development. Nature Sustainability, 2(9), 784-786. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0363-6
• Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers
  
  Massé, F., & Lunstrum, E. (2016). Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers. Geoforum, 69, 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.03.005