environmental e-governance
In this brief paper I outline the key areas in which e-Governance would be useful in environmental democracy. The paper briefly discusses what environmental democracy means. It lays out a human rights and instrumental argument in favor of access to information, public participation and access to justice (referred to collectively as 'access rights") in environmental matters. The paper identifies four barriers to promoting access rights and points to success stories from around the world suggesting how these barriers might be overcome. Much of the paper is based on "Voice & Choice: Opening the Door to Environmental Democracy" published in 2008 by the World Resources Institute. The paper also briefly examines recent research findings that concern access rights for the poor and e-Governance.
e-governance environmental democracy access access to information public participation access to justice access rights voice and choice environment