Sean Whittaker

The Right of Access to Environmental Information

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781108845236
• ISBN-10: 1108845231
• Artikelnr.: 61855176

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.