Description: Enforcing Environmental Laws for Strong Economies and Safe Communities

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Enforcing Environmental Laws for Strong Economies and Safe Communities

This roadmap for environmental and natural resources law enforcement (ENRLE) sets forth a course of action for the World Bank's ENRLE community of practice for FY2013-15. It outlines for senior management a strategy to mobilize and strengthen...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY AFRICAN ELEPHANT ANIMAL ANIMAL PARTS ANIMAL PRODUCTS ANNUAL DEFORESTATION ANTI-CORRUPTION ANTICORRUPTION ANTICORRUPTION WORK ARMED CONFLICT ARSON ASSETS AWARENESS RAISING BEAR BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIODIVERSITY LOSS BRIBES CANCER CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS CLIENT COUNTRIES CLIMATE CHANGE COASTAL COMMUNITIES COLLAPSE COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMODITIES COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY FORESTRY COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSERVATION CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CORAL CORAL REEFS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CORRUPT CORRUPT OFFICIALS CORRUPT PRACTICES CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS CREEK CRIME CRIME PREVENTION CRIMES CRIMINAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY CRIMINAL JUSTICE CRIMINALS CRIMINOLOGY CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES DECISION MAKING DEFORESTATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS DISCRETION DUE DILIGENCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS ECOSYSTEMS ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE ELEPHANT ELEPHANT POACHING ELEPHANT RANGE ELEPHANTS ENCROACHMENT ENDANGERED SPECIES ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS EXOTIC BIRDS EXPLOITATION EXPOSURE EXTINCTION EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES FAUNA FINANCIAL FLOWS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNITS FINANCIAL MARKET FINANCIAL SECTOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FINANCIAL SYSTEMS FISH FISH STOCKS FISHERIES FISHERS FISHING FLORA FOOD SECURITY FOREST FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST LAW FOREST LAW ENFORCEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST PRODUCTS FORESTRY FRAUD FRESHWATER TURTLES GLOBAL GOVERNANCE GLOBAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GLOBAL INITIATIVES GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HUNTING ILLEGAL FISHING ILLEGAL LOGGING ILLEGAL TIMBER ILLEGAL TRADE ILLEGAL TRADE IN WILDLIFE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE INCOME INCOMES INFORMATION SYSTEM INITIATIVE INSTITUTION BUILDING INTEGRITY INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTIGATION INVESTIGATORS INVESTMENT CLIMATE ISSUES IVORY IVORY TRADE JUDICIARY JURISDICTION JURISDICTIONS JUSTICE LAND TENURE LAW ENFORCEMENT LAWS LEADERSHIP LEGAL FRAMEWORKS LIQUIDITY LIVE ANIMALS LOGGING LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MONEY LAUNDERING NATIONAL PARK NATURAL CAPITAL NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCIES NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NATURAL RESOURCES OFFENSE OFFENSES OWNERSHIP RIGHTS PENALTIES PLANT POACHING POLICE PORTFOLIO PRIMARY MARKET PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT PROSECUTION PROSECUTIONS PROSECUTORS PROTECTED FAUNA PUBLIC FUNCTIONS PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC GOODS RECYCLING REDUCING EMISSIONS REGULATORS REGULATORY AUTHORITIES REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS REPTILES RESEARCH AGENDA RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RHINO RHINO HORN RISK MANAGEMENT RULE OF LAW SIDE PAYMENTS SMUGGLING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE TAX TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THEFT TIGER TIGER BONES TIGERS TIMBER TIMBER PRODUCTS TRADE INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE TREASURY TREE TREES TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS USE OF FIRE VIOLENCE WAGES WASTE DISPOSAL WEAK LAW ENFORCEMENT WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CRIME WILDLIFE POACHING WILDLIFE PROJECT WILDLIFE TRADE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/02/19042258/enforcing-environmental-laws-strong-economies-safe-communities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17560

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Summary:	This roadmap for environmental and natural resources law enforcement (ENRLE) sets forth a course of action for the World Bank's ENRLE community of practice for FY2013-15. It outlines for senior management a strategy to mobilize and strengthen the Bank's engagement in the fight against environmental and natural resource crime. The roadmap also serves as a mobilizing tool for staff and management in regional departments to demonstrate the importance of ENRLE and to outline the menu of solutions that the community of practice (COP) can offer to strengthen clients' fight against environmental and natural resource crime. Recent spikes in poaching, in illegal logging, and in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing have amplified the already urgent need for action. These crimes increase poverty, shrink prosperity, and magnify social and political tensions that undermine healthy communities and strong economies. Investment returns in wise environmental and natural resource law enforcement can be high. Criminal activities that affect the environment and natural resources are on the increase and pose an increasingly serious threat to development. Environmental and natural resource crime is common, but in many countries it is rarely prosecuted. This report discusses how the World Bank Group (WBG) will mobilize to work better on ENRLE. Recognizing the evolving global context, a new and fully mobilized community of practice will put more emphasis on building a constituency within the WBG to work on the range of ENRLE issues, on building the capacity of WBG staff to provide investment and technical assistance on ENRLE, on strengthening analytical work to develop a pipeline of ENRLE investments, and on fostering demand among clients for Bank investment in ENRLE.