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Access to environmental information and its use for environmental decision making are central pillars of environmental democracy. This statement, at first sight, seems natural—almost obvious—to anyone familiar with environmental management and environmental policy. After all, from the US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), enacted in 1969 and recognised since as ushering in the modern era of environmental legislation (Buck 1991), through the declarations of international environmental conferences (from the Stockholm United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 to Rio+20 in 2012) to a whole host of regulations, reports and academic discussions, environmental information is always described as central to decision making.
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Haklay, M.(. (2017). The Three Eras of Environmental Information: The Roles of Experts and the Public. In: Loreto, V., et al. Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_8
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