Synergy of multidisciplinary approaches for the effective implementation of the verification process illegally harvested wood

Modern technologies, digitalization and the formation of a new stage of industrialization, called «industrialization 4.0» in the absence of achieving the final goals of the previous stages of transformation, testify to the rapid and multidirectional flow of transformations in society. Despite the desire to unite a tremendous amount of information, each science, discipline, industry, production, etc., is changing based on an individual vector of development, remaining within the framework of digitalization mechanisms recommended by law. This generally does not contribute to the formation of a synergistic effect in certain activities. In this article, the author considers the possibilities of interdisciplinary methods to counter illegal logging through synergy of wood verification methods. The analysis of illegal logging from the point of view of violation of the rights of the Russian Federation, as the owner of the resource, and wood, as material evidence, the storage of which is impossible in a criminal case, together with the results of surveys, allowed the researcher to form and graphically present a mechanism for the implementation of material evidence (wood), identify problematic issues and propose possible ways to resolve them with an emphasis on reducing procedural costs and developing criminal proceedings. The author's definition of the term «wood verification» is proposed, the classification of methods (dendrochronological, forensic identification (including tracological, botanical, forest-pathological, forestry), visual, odorological, stable isotopes, genetic), as well as their characterization. The study concludes with a conclusion on the advisability of transforming the approaches used by some units of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation in order to achieve a synergistic effect in the process of verifying illegally harvested wood and countering criminal encroachments of an environmental orientation.

wood verification, illegal logging, synergy, multidisciplinary methods