“Environmental democracy” reflects increasing recognition that environmental issues must be addressed by all those affected by their outcome.
Access to environmental information for all is integral to environmental democracy’s concept. Citizens can become active participants in identifying and resolving issues in all levels when informed accurately with basic facts about the quality of their environment.
The discussion on environmental democracy entails a plethora of different concepts and values such as democracy, citizens’ engagement, ICTs, access to information, eDemocracy, eParticipation and many more. If examined alone all these notions cannot lead to coherent perspectives on how environmental democracy could be perceived, let alone on how to evaluate ICT tools role in its advancement. Therefore linkages between these concepts need to be drawn.
“Environmental Democracy via ICT” community aims to inform and discuss issues on environmental policy of the EU and address their impact on citizens’ everyday life to the ePractice.eu community members. It also wishes to provide and communicate information, news, and publications etc. about pertinent issues, projects etc. from the eParticipation and eGovernment agenda. In this effort a co-funded EU project U@MARENOSTRUM, will be used as a case to indicate the objectives and the potentialities of eParticipation projects addressing the aforementioned issue of environmental democracy.
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Rwanda will host to celebrations for the 2010 World Environment Day, on 5 June.
“Rwanda is an African nation that, despite big challenges, is seizing the multiple opportunities possible from green [read more]
AARHUS CONVENTION SECRETARIAT DEMONSTRATES ONLINE EUROPEAN POLLUTANTS MAP USING GOOGLE AT COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE
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http://unece.unog.ch/enhs/pp/demo3/trymap.asp[read more]
Jarmila Cikankova
(CENIA, ?eská informa?ní agentura životního prost?edí)
The Czech Environmental Meta-portal is a unique information system, based on the principleof sharing information, which is stored in different places using web based technologies. The aim was to [read more]
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority eApplications system has been implemented to enable the full electronic permitting process both for land use and environmentally-based applications. The [read more]
This years World Satellite Business Week will include a one-day Symposium on Earth Observation Business. With more than 250 Earth observation [read more]
Description (short summary):On 22 December 2004, action was taken regarding the implementation of the Environmental Information Act (Umweltinformationsgesetz, UIG). The Directive has [read more]
Description (short summary):The Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, Government Offices of Sweden commissioned this report as part of its contribution to facilitating [read more]
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