Resources Year '2005'
Since signing the Aarhus Convention in 1998, the European Community has been adopting legislation both at the Member States level and at the level of its institutions and bodies in order to fully…
This report on the Second Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention provides the perspective of one NGO which viewed the outcome as a victory for environmental democracy. Environmental and…
This article by the Secretary to the Convention describes the content, origin and evolution of the instrument and sets out next steps facing its implementation and future direction. The article also…
This public participation plan was developed as part of the Study of Public Participation in Environmental Assessment and Decision Making and was released in advance of a Workshop and Third meeting…
A major premise of this article is that the Aarhus Convention enjoys a special status with respect to societies that lived under scientific socialist regimes. It gives a brief historical exposition…
This Internet & ICTs for Social Justice and Development News feature discusses efforts by Central and Eastern European NGOs to introduce the Aarhus Convention at the World Summit on the…
The Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws (UCL), is concerned with the potential for using new developments in satellite technology for monitoring and enforcing national, European…
This note provides an overview of a joint University of Cape Town-UNITAR research project to identify lessons learned of involving the public in environmental decision-making in the new South Africa…
Uganda's Access to Information Act, adopted in 2005, prescribes the classes of information and procedure for obtaining access to that information by citizens. The Act is pursuant to Article 41…
The conference held from 29 to 30 August 2003 in Leuven, Belgium, outlined and discussed the three pillars of the Aarhus Convention and examined various directives that implement the Convention at…
