LAW ENFORCEMENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION

Conservation Law Enforcement in Michigan

Law Enforcement Resource Allocation (LERA) System

LERA, the information visualization system presented in this paper, is an interactive, scatterplot visualization system that was designed to support crime analysts in exploring the effects of various law enforcement administration programs and policies on crime rates. Several important features were incorporated in our system to meet this goal. In particular LERA provides the user with the abil...

Food Waste Management Scoping Study U.s. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery April

To support municipal solid waste (MSW) characterization efforts, EPA conducted a scoping study on food waste and the methods by which they are managed. The end-of-life sustainable food management (SFM) techniques presented in this scoping study include practices currently used as well as emerging technologies. While the research did not result in much quantifiable data, this study provides summ...

The underappreciated role of regulatory enforcement in natural resource conservation

This article analyzes the role of prescriptive regulation and citizen-suit litigation (regulatory enforcement) in natural resource conservation in the USA. It first briefly explains why the judiciary is so involved in resource management and why litigation is so often used as a conservation tool. It then summarizes the extent to which regulatory enforcement is being threatened and/or undermined...

Research and in situ conservation of owl monkeys enhances environmental law enforcement at the Colombian-Peruvian border.

This study reports on impacts of illegal trade in owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae, A. vociferans) for the biomedical research market in the Colombian-Peruvian Amazonian border. Through freedom of information requests and interviews with hunters we found that 912 owl monkeys, including A. nancymaae captured in Peru, were trapped over a 3-month period in 2012 to supply a malaria research facility ba...