The International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) is a partnership of government and non-government enforcement and compliance practitioners from over 100 countries. INECE contributes to a healthy and clean environment, sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of ecosystem integrity through effective compliance with and enforcement of environmental laws. INECE's goals are: raising awareness to compliance and enforcement, developing networks for enforcement cooperation, strengthening capacity to implement and enforce environmental requirements.

January, 2005: Thanks to the active assistance of a growing number of INECE participants, this year the network made great strides toward our goal of strengthening the fundamental role that environmental compliance and enforcement plays in building the foundation for the rule of law, good governance, and, ultimately, for sustainable development. Click here for a list of INECE accomplishments in 2004.

February, 2004: INECE was prominently featured in "Environmental Crimes: Profiting at the Earth's Expense," by Charles W. Schmidt, the lead story in the February issue of "Environmental Health Perspectives," the Journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The Guest Editorial, by Duncan Brack of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, also refers to INECE.

INECE also was featured in New World Order by Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter (Princeton 2004). Professor Slaughter, who is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, relies on INECE as a leading example of transnational government networks that are responding to the demand for more global governance to address the challenges of a globalizing world, without the centralized global governance that many fear. See Princeton University Press web page for further information: http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7712.html.
See also the review in Foreign Affairs, May/June 2004, www.foreignaffairs.org/20040501fabook83315/anne-marie-slaughter/a-new-world-order.html.

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IDGEC is a Core Science Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

IDGEC's research agenda centers on an examination of the role of social institutions in determining the nature of human-environment interactions and the outcomes arising from these interactions. Institutions may play prominent roles in causing or exacerbating large-scale environmental problems as well as in solving them.

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The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) was initially launched in 1990 by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) as the Human Dimensions Programme (HDP). In February 1996, the International Council for Science (ICSU) joined ISSC as co-sponsor of the Programme. At this time, the name of the Programme was changed to IHDP, and the Secretariat was moved to Bonn, Germany, through a generous grant from the German government.

IHDP is an international, interdisciplinary, non-governmental science programme dedicated to promoting and co-ordinating research. Its aims are to describe, analyse and understand the human dimensions of global environmental change. IHDP's programme is designed around its three main objectives of research, capacity building and networking.

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GEsource provides access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in geography and the environment through five distinct subject gateways: Environment, General Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Techniques and Approaches. Each of these main headings is further divided into a series of sub-sections that together make up the browse structure of GEsource.

Alongside a growing range of additional services, GEsource includes a core database of high-quality Internet resources catalogued by subject specialists across a number of disciplines - the environment, general geography, human geography, physical geography and techniques and approaches.

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