“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.
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
A Digital Agenda for [read more]
A Workshop on "ePractice Communities Facilitators" will be held June 16, 2010 in Brussels, aiming to assess past, present and future of the ePractice communities.
Community facilitators and [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]
1st Symposium on Earth Observation (EO) Satellite Business This year's World Satellite Business Week will include a one-day Symposium on Earth Observation Business. With more than 250 Earth [read more]
The workshop entitled "Reconnecting citizens with politics and policy making - what is happening now and what should be done in future" is the pre-conference workshop of the 7th Eastern European [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 been implemented [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 the ongoing debate [read more]
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