4.7 Institutional Arrangements

The institutional map: the ministry (the Ministry of Forests and Environment — the policy-and- coordination); the Department of Environment (the EPA's implementation: the monitoring, the standards, the inspection); the forestry family (the Department of Forests; the national-parks' department — the protected areas); the federal-and-local faces (the provincial ministries; the municipal environmental sections); the supporting institutions (the Department of Mines-and- Geology's EIA faces; the National Disaster authority's link); the courts-and-the PIL (the environmental jurisprudence's engine — Unit 6); the non-state institutions (the community-forest user groups — the world-famous Nepali invention; the NGOs-and-forum world — the Pro-Public tradition of Unit 6's cases).