Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Insofar as the transparency turn in global environmental politics includes multilateral agreements, one treaty stands out as seminal-the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (henceforth Aarhus Convention 1998). 1 The Aarhus Convention, negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), features contains a striking invocation of human environmental rights.Its article 1 affirms the "right of every person of present and future generations to live in an environment adequate to his or her health or well-being" as justification for its recognition, in environmental matters, of rights to information access, public participation, and access to justice.These Aarhus procedural rights bring corresponding duties on to states.Thus, for citizens' access to information, there are information disclosure obligations on for public authorities.
Author: Michael Mason
Language: German
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2342050976