Sustainability through democratization? The Aarhus Convention and the future of environmental decision making in Europe

Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 94-112

  Bell, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944246404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203495568     Document Type: Chapter

References (39)

1. Beckerman, W. (1999) 'Sustainable development and our obligations to future generations', in A. Dobson (ed.) Fairness and Futurity, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Brady, K. (1998a) 'New convention on access to information and public participation in environmental matters', Environmental Policy and Law 28/2: 69-75.
3. Brady, K. (1998b) 'Aarhus Convention signed', Environmental Policy and Law 28/3-4: 171-90.
4. Burnheim, J. (1985) Is Democracy Possible?, Cambridge: Polity Press.
5. Burningham, K. and Thrush, D. (2001) 'Rainforests are a Long Way from Here': The Environmental Concerns of Disadvantaged Groups, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
6. Bush, J., Moffatt, S. and Dunn, C. (2002) 'Contextualisation of local and global environmental issues in north-east England: implications for debates on globalisation and the "risk society"', Local Environment 7: 2, 119-33.
7. Davies, A. (2001) 'What silence knows - planning, public participation and environmental values', Environmental Values 10: 77-102.
8. de-Shalit, A. (1995) Why Posterity Matters, London: Routledge.
9. Dobson, A. (1996) 'Representative democracy and the environment', in W. Lafferty and J. Meadowcroft (eds) Democracy and the Environment, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
10. Dobson, A. (1998) Justice and the Environment, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
11. Doherty, B. and de Geus, M. (eds) (1996) Democracy and Green Political Thought: Sustainability, Rights and Citizenship, London: Routledge.
12. Dryzek, J. (1987) Rational Ecology, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
13. Dryzek, J. (1997) The Politics of the Earth, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
14. Ebbeson, J. (2002) Information, Participation and Access to Justice: The Model of the Aarhus Convention, Background Paper No.5 for the Joint UNEP-OHCHR Expert Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment, Geneva, 14-16 January. Available online: http://www.unhchr.ch/environment/bp5.html (accessed 18 July 2002).
15. Friends of the Earth (2001) Pollution and Poverty - Breaking the Link, London: Friends of the Earth.
16. Goodin, R. (1992) Green Political Theory, Cambridge: Polity Press.
17. Hawthorne, M. and Alabaster, T. (1999) 'Citizen 2000: development of a model of environmental citizenship', Global Environmental Change 9: 25-43.
18. Hayward, T. (1998) Political Theory and Ecological Values, New York, NY: St Martin's Press.
19. Irwin, A. (1995) Citizen Science, London: Routledge.
20. Lake, R. (1996) 'Volunteers, NIMBYs, and environmental justice: dilemmas of democratic practice', Antipode 28: 2, 160-74.
21. Lowe, P., Murdoch, J. and Norton, A. (2001) Professionals and Volunteers in the Environmental Process, Newcastle: Centre for Rural Economy.
22. Mathews, F. (guest ed.) (1995) Environmental Politics 4: 4 (Special Issue: Ecology and Democracy).
23. Meadowcroft, J. (1997) 'Planning, democracy and the challenge of sustainable development', International Political Science Review 18: 2, 167-89.
24. Nagel, T. (1995) 'Nozick: libertarianism without foundations', in his Other Minds, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Norton, B. (1991) Toward Unity Among Environmentalists, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Pearce, F. and Edwards, R. (2002) 'Forest fires fuel pollution crisis', New Scientist 17 (August): 8-9.
27. Petkova, E. and Veit, P. (2000) Environmental Accountability Beyond the Nation - State: The Implications of the Aarhus Convention, Washington, DC: World Resources Institute.
28. Petts, J. (1997) 'The public-expert interface in local waste management decisions: expertise, credibility and process', Public Understanding of Science 6: 359-81.
29. Rawls, J. (1993) Political Liberalism, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
30. Renn, O., Webler, T. and Wiedemann, P. (eds) (1995) Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
31. Rose-Ackerman, S. and Halpaap, A. (2001) 'The Aarhus Convention and the politics of process: the political economy of procedural environmental rights', paper presented at The Law and Economics of Environmental Policy: A Symposium, Faculty of Law, University College London, September 5-7.
32. Rydin, Y. (2000) The Public and Local Environmental Policy: Strategies for Promoting Public Participation, London: Town and Country Planning Association.
33. Shelton, D. (2002) 'Environmental rights in multilateral treaties adopted between 1991 and 2001', Environmental Policy and Law 32: 2, 70-8.
34. Stec, S., Casey-Lefkowitz, S. and Jendroska, J. (2000) The Aarhus Convention: An Implementation Guide, New York, NY: United Nations.
35. Stephens, C., Bullock, S. and Scott, A. (2001) Environmental Justice: Rights and Means to a Healthy Environment for All, ESRC Briefing Paper No. 7, London: Economic and Social Research Council. Available online: http://www.foe. co.uk/resource/reports/environmental_justice.pdf.
36. Tuesen, G. and Simonsen, J. (2000) 'Compliance with the Aarhus Convention', Environmental Policy and Law 30: 6, 299-306.
37. Tytler, R., Duggan, S. and Gott, R. (2001) 'Public participation in an environmental dispute: implications for science education', Public Understanding of Science 10: 343-64.
38. UNECE (2001) 'Environmental rights not a luxury: Aarhus Convention enters into force', UNECE press release. Available online: http://www.unece. org/pp/press.releases/01env15e.html (accessed 29 April 2002).
39. WCED (1987) Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press.