Freedom of Environmental Information

Aspirations and Practice
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83970-285-3
Verlag: Intersentia Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

This book explores how the public's right of access to environmental information is being used in practice and how far these uses, and the motives behind them, align with the aspiration of furthering environmental protection that lies behind the creation of this legal right.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, Sean

Reid, Colin T.

Mendel, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Allgemeines Informationsrecht, Datenschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht

Über Autor(innen)

Mendel, Jonathan
JONATHAN MENDEL is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Dundee. He has researched and taught on topics related to policy, networks and technology, notably around: access to environmental information; data, information and surveillance policy and technology and anti-trafficking.

Reid, Colin T.
COLIN REID is Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Dundee where he has worked since 1991. He has taught and written on various environmental law and public law themes, notably biodiversity law and the implications for environmental law of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, especially in the context of devolution. He is a founding member and Patron of the UK Environmental Law Association and founded the Environmental Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars.

Whittaker, Sean
SEAN WHITTAKER is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee, having been appointed to this post in 2020. Specialising in Public Law, Information Law and Comparative Law, his doctoral work focused on the right of access to environmental information and its implementation in various jurisdictions.