Name: The Right of Access to Environmental Information
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108949705
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Author: Sean Whittaker
ISBN: 9781108949705

The Right of Access to Environmental Information

By Sean Whittaker

Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available October 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781108949705
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The book discusses the normative impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right of access to environmental information. Through this analysis the book identifies each of these jurisdictions' unique conceptualisations of the right which, in turn, influences the design of their respective environmental information regimes. This allows these jurisdictions potentially to act as sources of legal reforms for each other to improve how the right is guaranteed via legal transplant theory, challenging the normativity of the Aarhus Convention. This is not to suggest that the Aarhus Convention exerts no normative influence on how the right is guaranteed; there are core substantive and core procedural elements which have to be met for the right to be effectively guaranteed, and the book shows that the Aarhus Convention does exert a normative influence over the procedural elements of the right.

Table 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