Right of Access to Environmental Information

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Bridging the gaps between jurisdictions: Analysing legal transplant theory as a means of legal reform; 3. The Aarhus convention: The global standard for the right of access to environmental information?; 4. The environmental information regime in England; 5. The right of access to environmental information in the United States; 6. East meets West: The right of access to environmental information in China; 7. The future development of the right of access to environmental information: Applying legal transplant theory to England, the US and China; 8. Conclusions, key findings and future directions.

About the author

Sean Whittaker completed his PhD at University College Cork, during which he visited Vermont Law School and China University of Political Science and Law. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Freedom of Information and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee.

Summary

The book is intended to serve academic lawyers, with a focus on environmental and information lawyers. It focusses on the right to environmental information and the impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right via legal transplant theory.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Whittaker, Sean (University of Dundee) Whittaker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781108845236
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84523-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / Environmental, Environmental law, Environment law