This timely and forward-looking book explores how environmental democracy can be advanced globally by encouraging wider accession to the Aarhus Convention, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region.
The book explores the Aarhus Convention as a catalytic instrument for building, operationalizing, and expanding environmental democracy in the Mediterranean and beyond. It sheds light on the creative power of the horizontal normative dimension of international law, which is often overlooked, and reveals how treaty interlinkages can lead to more participatory, accountable, and future-oriented environmental governance.
The book presents an innovative legal and policy framework for participatory environmental governance through a relational approach to international law, thereby inspiring new thinking and new paths towards the future.
