The Aarhus Convention : towards environmental solidarisation / Duncan Weaver.
Weaver, Duncan.
2023
KJE6242
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Title
The Aarhus Convention : towards environmental solidarisation / Duncan Weaver.
Author
Weaver, Duncan.
ISBN
9783031435362 (electronic bk.)
3031435362 (electronic bk.)
3031435354
9783031435355
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43536-2
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-43536-2 doi
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KJE6242
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.4046
Summary
The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement. Given that a quarter-century has passed since Aarhus was opened for signature, now is an opportune moment to revisit it from a fresh perspective. Marking this anniversary, this book explores Aarhus from the vista of the English School of International Relations, an ethically-minded perspective used to gauge the prevalence of state-oriented and human-oriented progress from the Convention's rationales and realities. It firstly considers Aarhus' propagation, investigating the legal, diplomatic and geopolitical contexts enabling its emergence. It secondly investigates Aarhus' germination, with reference to its trinity of procedural rights. Thirdly, the book examines the Convention's growth, in terms of the development of its organisational infrastructure. The chief finding is that Aarhus demonstrates, in environmental contexts, the feasibility and benefit of fostering 'humankind' solidarist progress, rooted in moral cosmopolitanism, within the existing power arrangements of a sovereignty-based pluralism. Pluralist concerns for diversity and international order are found to be a precondition for more ethically ambitious solidarist endeavours. These observations reinforce the logic of solidarisation, an English School innovation that presents sovereignty as (a) being ethically matured by solidarism whilst (b) delimiting solidarism within the threshold of states' tolerance. Dr. Duncan Weaver is Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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Environmental politics and theory.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
Introducing Aarhus1
Key Argumentation
Structure
Notes
Bibliography
2 Theoretical Framework
Introduction
Realism
Revolutionism
Rationalism
Pluralism
Solidarism and Solidarisation
Conclusion
Bibliography
3 Propagation: The Aarhus Convention's International Context
Introduction
International Legal and Diplomatic Context
Human Rights
United Nations Charter and 'International Bill of Rights'
The European Convention on Human Rights

Environmental Protection
Towards Stockholm: United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
Towards Rio: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Geopolitical Context
Greening Glasnost: Democratisation and Dialogue
An end to bipolarity
'East-West' Environmental Dialogue
Socialist Civil Society
Environment for Europe
Negotiating Aarhus
Sovereign Counterbalancing at Aarhus' 'Launch'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Germination: The Aarhus Convention's Procedural Trinity
Introductio n1
The First Pillar: Access to Information

The Second Pillar: Public Participation
The Third Pillar: Access to Justice
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
5 Growth: The Aarhus Convention's Organisational Infrastructure
Introduction
The Strategic Tier: The Meeting of the Parties
The Doggedness of Sovereignty: National Implementation Reporting
Meeting of the Parties' Rhetoric: 'Humankindness' Tempered by Sovereignty
Operational Tier: Working Group of the Parties, Bureau, Task Forces and Secretariat
The Tactical Tier: Aarhus' Compliance Mechanism
Composition
Quasi-Judicial Working Practices

Human Empowerment
Conclusion
Note
Bibliography
6 Conclusion: Towards Solidarisation
Introduction
Realism
Revolutionism
Rationalism: Towards Solidarisation
Bibliography
Index

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