The Right of Access to Environmental Information

Sean Whittaker

doi:10.1017/9781108954914

The book discusses the normative impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right of access to environmental information. Through this analysis the book identifies each of these jurisdictions' unique conceptualisations of the right which, in turn, influences the design of their respective environmental information regimes. This allows these jurisdictions potentially to act as sources of legal reforms for each other to improve how the right is guaranteed via legal transplant theory, challenging the normativity of the Aarhus Convention. This is not to suggest that the Aarhus Convention exerts no normative influence on how the right is guaranteed; there are core substantive and core procedural elements which have to be met for the right to be effectively guaranteed, and the book shows that the Aarhus Convention does exert a normative influence over the procedural elements of the right.

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The Right of Access to Environmental Information
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The Right of Access to Environmental Information - Title page
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Table of Cases
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Table of Decisions of the Information Commissioner (England and Wales)
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Table of International Instruments
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Table of Findings and Recommendations of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and Decisions of the Meeting of the Parties
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Table of European Union Legislative Instruments
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Table of National Legislative Instruments
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Table of Official Documents, Explanatory Memorandum and Guidance Documents
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Abbreviations
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Bridging the Gaps between Jurisdictions
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Analysing Legal Transplant Theory as a Means of Legal Reform
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3 - The Aarhus Convention
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The Global Standard for the Right of Access to Environmental Information?
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4 - The Environmental Information Regime in England
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5 - The Right of Access to Environmental Information in the United States
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6 - East Meets West
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The Right of Access to Environmental Information in China
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7 - The Future Development of the Right of Access to Environmental Information
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Applying Legal Transplant Theory to England, the United States and China
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8 - Conclusions, Key Findings and Future Directions
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Bibliography
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Index
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Contents

The Right of Access to Environmental Information
pp i-ii

The Right of Access to Environmental Information - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Table of Cases
pp ix-xiv

Table of Decisions of the Information Commissioner (England and Wales)
pp xv-xvi

Table of International Instruments
pp xvii-xviii

Table of Findings and Recommendations of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and Decisions of the Meeting of the Parties
pp xix-xx

Table of European Union Legislative Instruments
pp xxi-xxii

Table of National Legislative Instruments
pp xxiii-xxvi

Table of Official Documents, Explanatory Memorandum and Guidance Documents
pp xxvii-xxviii

Abbreviations
pp xxix-xxx

1 - Introduction
pp 1-15

2 - Bridging the Gaps between Jurisdictions
pp 16-32

3 - The Aarhus Convention
pp 33-59

4 - The Environmental Information Regime in England
pp 60-98

5 - The Right of Access to Environmental Information in the United States
pp 99-135

6 - East Meets West
pp 136-171

7 - The Future Development of the Right of Access to Environmental Information
pp 172-195

8 - Conclusions, Key Findings and Future Directions
pp 196-204

Bibliography
pp 205-214

Index
pp 215-222

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