14 Principle 10
Jonas Ebbesson
From: The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development: A Commentary
Edited By: Jorge E. Viñuales
- Subject(s):
- Sustainable development
This chapter analyses the rationale, travaux préparatoires, conceptual scope, and normative and jurisprudential influence of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration. It pays particular attention to how the rights of access to environmental information, participation in environmental decision-making and access to justice have played a major role both in the development of treaties or soft law instruments and it a growing body of domestic and international jurisprudence.