A Right to a Clean Environment in the Middle East: Opportunities to Embrace or Reject

Following the Stockholm Declaration in 1972 emphasizing an essential need for a clean environment, a number of international proclamations were issued that contributed to international recognition of a substantive right to a clean environment as embodied 20 years later in the Rio Declaration. Since...

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Published in:Environmental law reporter 2012-03, Vol.42 (3)
Main Author: Khalaileh, Yaser
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Environment
Environmental law
Legislation
Middle East
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Summary:Following the Stockholm Declaration in 1972 emphasizing an essential need for a clean environment, a number of international proclamations were issued that contributed to international recognition of a substantive right to a clean environment as embodied 20 years later in the Rio Declaration. Since that time, there has been a movement for recognition of procedural rights to provide information to the public as it attempts to participate in the decision-making process with respect to environmental matters. Development and exercise of these procedural rights not only provide opportunities to protect environmental rights, but can also further the development of a substantive right to a clean environment. Adapted from source document.
ISSN:0046-2284