Resources Year
This report on laws opening government records and processes found that over fifty countries have adopted comprehensive laws to facilitate access and over thirty more were in the process of adoption…
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…
The report calls for the notion of 'public participation' to be put aside in favour of what its authors call 'participatory planning'. The report calls for experiments in using third parties to 'pre-…
This website introduces the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004. These Acts cover more than 100,000 public authorities, waste companies and privatised…
This review of the Aarhus Convention one year on from its ratification introduces a conference in London (which was held on 1 November 2002) with a number of leading speakers including Lord Justice…
Civic self-determination and ecological sustainability are widely accepted as two of the most important public goals. This book explains how they can be combined. Using case studies from around the…
The Command Paper, and the original Explanatory Memorandum, were release in June 2000. This revised Explanatory Memorandum was produced to explain the implementing measures that have been taken since…
This briefing discusses how the Aarhus Convention is being implemented through the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) makes recommendations on what the Government can do to improve implementation…
Capacity Global's introduction to the Aarhus Convention places emphasis on the Convention's potential to provide socially excluded communities with the tools they need to influence and challenge…
A lecture with slides by Simon Parker who is a Senior Researcher at the Think Tank Demos. He discusses whether the private sector is capable of creating more democratic public services. The lecture…
