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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Right to Access to Environmental Information

Heloísa Oliveira

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
January 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Environment and energy policy — Right to access to information — Environmental rights

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The right to access to environmental information is a persons’ right to accurate information related to the environment. The delimitation of the content of this right depends on its normative constitutional framework; many constitutions include this right merely as an instrument for the right to health (limiting it to what is relevant for human health), while others determine that the protection of the environment is, itself, a constitutional duty of the State and the citizens. 2 The content of the right may also vary greatly in its correlative public duties....
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