Maastricht Recommendations on Promoting Effective Public Participation in Decision-making in Environmental Matters Prepared Under the Aarhus Convention
Maastricht Recommendations on Promoting Effective Public Participation in Decision-making in Environmental Matters Prepared Under the Aarhus Convention

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Published: 2015

Total Pages: 92

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These recommendations are based on existing good practice and are intended as a practical tool to provide helpful guidance and to improve the implementation of the provisions of the Aarhus Convention in decision-making to: a) assist Parties when designing their legal framework on public participation in environmental decision-making; b) assist public officials when designing and carrying out public participation procedures on environmental decision-making under the Convention, and c) provide an invaluable tool through which to share expertise and good practice so as to promote participation. The Recommendations may also be of value to public, NGOs and the private sector involved in environmental matters.

Maastricht Recommendations on Promoting Effective Public Participation in Decision-making in Environmental Matters
Maastricht Recommendations on Promoting Effective Public Participation in Decision-making in Environmental Matters

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Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789210574082

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Foreword -- Summary -- General recommendations -- Public participation in decision-making on specific activities (article 6) -- Public participation concerning plans, programmes and policies (article 7) -- Public participation during the preparation of executive regulations and laws (article 8) -- Annex

Participation and Democratic Innovation under International Human Rights Law
Participation and Democratic Innovation under International Human Rights Law

Author: Nicholas McMurry

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1000864693

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This book explores the human rights principle of participation and the human right to participation. The work presents an argument that international human rights law imposes obligations to enable participation, and demonstrates that it has been interpreted in this way by authoritative bodies. Divided into four parts, Part I provides the historical and theoretical background. Part II presents the argument that a right to participation and a human rights principle of participation exist in international law and Part III argues that human rights law, and the way it has been interpreted, can provide a coherent account of the content of such a right and principle. The conclusions of the book and their implications are explored in Part IV. While there have been several studies of specific forms of participation, such as collective bargaining, this study provides a coherent account of the meaning and application of participation in international human rights law as a whole. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the area of international human rights law.

Environmental Rights
Environmental Rights

Author: Stephen J. Turner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1108482244

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A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Author: Stationery Office, The

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2005-06-17

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780101658621

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This document contains the text of the Aarhus Convention, which was adopted at the 4th Ministerial Conference in the "Environment for Europe" process held in Denmark in June 1998, and which entered into force for the UK on 24 May 2005. The Convention establishes a number of public rights with regard to the environment, including the right of everyone to receive environmental information that is held by public authorities; the right to participate from an early stage in environmental decision-making; and the right to challenge public decisions that have been made without respect for the two aforementioned rights or environmental law in general.

Sustainability through Participation?
Sustainability through Participation?

Author: Birgit Peters

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9004509380

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Can—and should—participation be a means of achieving sustainability? The concepts of sustainability and participation are both in vogue, and many international, supranational and national legal texts and standards refer to these two concepts. However, there are still several unanswered questions that invite legal inquiry: which sustainability? Which kinds of participation? Participation by whom? How are the two concepts of sustainability and participation effectively interlinked in legal provisions? This book approaches the interconnection between sustainability and participation inductively and precisely in areas of law which are commonly associated with sustainability and sustainable development: national, European and international environmental and economic law.

Managing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Governance
Managing Facts and Feelings in Environmental Governance

Author: Lorenzo Squintani

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1788976177

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This timely book brings to the foreground the considerable tensions between the need to engage the public in the importance of environmental governance and the need of professional expertise to address the issues which arise. In doing so, it highlights that not only can public opinion deviate from scientific knowledge, but scientific knowledge itself can be lacunose or contradicting. Drawing together insights from some of the leading scholars, this engaging work will provide guidance to decision makers, including judges, on how to govern public participation procedures and professional expertise and the role that the precautionary principle can play in this regard.

For Our Environment
For Our Environment

Author: UN. ECE. Information Unit

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 6

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Information pamphlet concerning the ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention).