A Consultative Meeting of Government Experts on the Draft Guidelines for the Development of National Legislation on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental…
A system of democratic governance has to involve ample opportunities for citizen and their organizations to engage with government – what is usually termed ‘participatory governance’. The main…
On 12-14 December 2008, the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University hosted an International Experts Workshop on "Global Norms on Access to Environmental…
California Government Code section 65856 provides that the legislative body of a local agency must hold a public hearing when it receives a recommendation of the planning commission, and that the…
PRIA is an International Centre for Learning and Promotion of Democratic Governance.It was founded in 1982, in reponse to the realisation that grassroot realities across much of India revealed that…
Subtitled "How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment", this book is aimed at anyone - from concerned individuals to community groups to professional…
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Aarhus Convention and reflect on its interaction with EU environmental law, the Centre for Environmental Law of the University of Amsterdam organized an…
In this opinion piece, the author reviews the Ukrainian response to the 2005 and 2008 decisions of the Parties calling for Ukraine to submit an action plan and undertake legal reform to bring it into…
The GAINS-Asia project has developed a state-of-the-art disciplinary model to assess the co-benefits of air pollution and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The tool allows the interactive…
This article appearing in the International NGO Journal - Vol. 1 (3), pp. 041-043, December November 2006 - discusses how to foster a conducive atmosphere for publicparticipation at municipal level…
