Environmental Reporting and Information Sources
Author | Jamie Benidickson |
Pages | 423-432 |
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CHAPTER 19
ENVIRONMENTAL
REPORTING AND
INFORMATION SOURCES
A. INTRODUCTION
Under the auspices of the Economic Commission for Europe an agree-
ment was reached at Aarhus, Denmark, in 1998 concerning access to
information, public participation in deci sion making, and access to jus-
tice in environmental matters. In this context, the Aarhus Convention
formally defined “environmental information” as any information, in
whatever form, relating to:
(a) The state of elements of the environment, such as air and atmos-
phere, water, soil, landscape, and natural sites, biological divers-
ity and its components, inc luding genetically modified organ isms,
and the interaction among t hese elements;
(b) Factors such a s substances, energy, noise, and radiation, a nd activ-
ities or measures, including administrative measures, environ-
mental agreements, policies, legislation, plans, and programmes,
affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment
within the scope of subparagraph (a) above, and cost-benefit and
other economic analyses and assumptions used i n environmental
decision-making;
(c) The state of human health and safety, conditions of human life,
cultural sites and built structures, inasmuch as they are or may
be affected by the state of the elements of the environment or,
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