Access to Environmental Information and the Problem of Defining Public Authorities

Whittaker, Sean

doi:10.1350/enlr.2013.15.3.190

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“…Environmental information is also important. According to Whittaker (2023), the way the public is involved with environmental matters is primarily centered around the supply of environmental news to the public by the state and the media. Also, environmental education and eco-literacy as components of education for sustainable development are related to the environment in many ways (Locke et al, 2013).…”

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“…In the light of Environmental Rights (ER) in the international legal framework, it can be seen that it is in the Americas that the most significant advances have been made. By definition, international environmental law is the set of agreements and principles that reflect the world's collective effort to manage our transition to the Anthropocene by solving our most serious environmental problems, such as climate change, ozone depletion, and the mass extinction of wildlife (Hunter, 2021;Whittaker, 2023). Likewise, the United Nations Human Rights Council (NUCDH, 2018) recognized that "A safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to liberty.…”

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Environmental Rights are a Human Right to a Healthy Environment: A Brief Review

O. Russo

2023

IJLSAR

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Environmental Rights is a branch of law that deals with the protection and safeguarding of the environment; and, is a set of legal rules that regulate people's relationships with nature, and it can be said that it is an interdisciplinary right, based on rules of private law, public law, administrative law, and criminal law. Therefore, it regulates the creation, modification, and fulfillment of legal relationships that condition the enjoyment, conservation, and improvement of the environment, inducing actions and abstentions in favor of the environment and the common good. As such, it is a fundamental human right to a safe, clean and healthy environment; and sustainable environmental governance cannot exist without the establishment of and respect for human rights.

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