Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law

Having timely and adequate access to environmental information, fostering the effective engagement of all interested parties in environmental decision-making and safeguarding access to environmental justice are important prerequisites of sustainable development. Seeking to contribute to environmen...

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Otros Autores:	NU. CEPAL
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Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	ECLAC 2018
Materias:	MEDIO AMBIENTE ACCESO A LA INFORMACION INFORMACION AMBIENTAL DERECHO JUSTICIA ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PARTICIPACION POPULAR ENVIRONMENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LAW JUSTICE CASE STUDIES POPULAR PARTICIPATION
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spelling	oai-11362-435492019-12-11T14:43:41Z Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law NU. CEPAL Caribbean Court of Justice MEDIO AMBIENTE ACCESO A LA INFORMACION INFORMACION AMBIENTAL DERECHO JUSTICIA ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PARTICIPACION POPULAR ENVIRONMENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LAW JUSTICE CASE STUDIES POPULAR PARTICIPATION Having timely and adequate access to environmental information, fostering the effective engagement of all interested parties in environmental decision-making and safeguarding access to environmental justice are important prerequisites of sustainable development. Seeking to contribute to environmental democracy and sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy of Law and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have joined forces to compile the normative foundations and judicial developments that underpin the effective enjoyment of such rights and identify the key challenges ahead. This book, the outcome of that effort, summarizes the legal frameworks applicable to Caribbean countries on environmental access rights, identifies essential common core elements for upholding such rights and reviews salient cases from high courts of the subregion in which access rights have been implemented successfully. Forewoed .-- I. Overview of the Caribbean legal framework on access rights in environmental matters. A. International and regional obligations on environmental access rights. B. National obligations on environmental access rights .-- II. Core elements for ensuring environmental access rights. A. Access to environmental information .-- B. Public participation in environmental matters. C. Access to justice in environmental matters .-- Chapter III. Selected Caribbean case law on access rights in environmental matters .-- Chapter IV. Final considerations. 2018-09-21T14:27:52Z 2018-04-26T19:11:30Z 2018-09-21T14:27:52Z 2018-09-21 Texto Documento Completo http://hdl.handle.net/11362/43549 LC/TS.2018/31/Rev.1 LC/TS.2018/31 en .pdf application/pdf CARIBE CARIBBEAN REGION ECLAC CCJ Academy of Law
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topic	MEDIO AMBIENTE ACCESO A LA INFORMACION INFORMACION AMBIENTAL DERECHO JUSTICIA ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PARTICIPACION POPULAR ENVIRONMENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LAW JUSTICE CASE STUDIES POPULAR PARTICIPATION
spellingShingle	MEDIO AMBIENTE ACCESO A LA INFORMACION INFORMACION AMBIENTAL DERECHO JUSTICIA ESTUDIOS DE CASOS PARTICIPACION POPULAR ENVIRONMENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION LAW JUSTICE CASE STUDIES POPULAR PARTICIPATION Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
description	Having timely and adequate access to environmental information, fostering the effective engagement of all interested parties in environmental decision-making and safeguarding access to environmental justice are important prerequisites of sustainable development. Seeking to contribute to environmental democracy and sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy of Law and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean have joined forces to compile the normative foundations and judicial developments that underpin the effective enjoyment of such rights and identify the key challenges ahead. This book, the outcome of that effort, summarizes the legal frameworks applicable to Caribbean countries on environmental access rights, identifies essential common core elements for upholding such rights and reviews salient cases from high courts of the subregion in which access rights have been implemented successfully.
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title	Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
title_short	Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
title_full	Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
title_fullStr	Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
title_full_unstemmed	Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law
title_sort	ensuring environmental access rights in the caribbean: analysis of selected case law
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Ensuring environmental access rights in the Caribbean: Analysis of selected case law

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