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Introduction
to INECE's Principles of Environmental Enforcement
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The "Principles of Environmental
Enforcement" text and associated training exercises,
and role-playing and case-study materials were developed in
1991 by the U.S. EPA in cooperation with Poland’s Environment
Ministry and the Dutch Ministry to assist policymakers in any
international or domestic setting to develop the institutional
capacity for designing and implementing effective programs for
compliance with environmental requirements.
The training is designed as a three-day course.
Course documents are also available in Spanish:
Principios
de Cumplimiento y Aplicación de la Ley Ambiental,
la traducción española.
The first day consists of a series of
exercises that introduce participants to basic concepts and
a range of options. Participants explore:
- environmental
goals, desired behavior change to achieve those goals, and
the range of environmental management approaches to achieve
them;
- what factors motivate and/or
create barriers to achieving behavior change, definitions
of compliance, enforcement and deterrence, and why compliance
and enforcement concerns are important;
- drafting of enforceable requirements,
where appropriate, and what makes requirements clear and
effective;
- compliance monitoring information
needs and approaches from the perspectives of the regulated
community and government officials; and
- the range of enforcement responses,
their applicability to a range of situations and the need
for predictable policies.
The second day provides an opportunity
for participants to design their own environmental management
approach, draft enforceable requirements, and design elements
of compliance and enforcement strategy for a fictitious community
and environmental problem. Participants explore:
- the
application of different environmental management approaches
to a particular problem;
- the
drafting of enforceable requirements where applicable;
- designing
compliance promotion strategies;
- balancing
compliance promotion and enforcement resources;
- designing
compliance monitoring strategies and establishing the frequency
and type of inspection;
- anticipating
potential violations and designing enforcement response
policies; and
- evaluating
results and revising strategies.
The third day involves
an enforcement negotiation settlement role-play, where participants
act out different roles and consider an enforcement problem
from different perspectives.
Case Studies
Case studies have been developed for delivery
at the International Conferences and elsewhere so that facilitators
can select from among seven subject areas of environmental
problems most likely faced by a country. Technical Support
Documents have been developed in most of these subjects
as stand -alone resources:
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