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Institutional barriers to environmental information

✍ Scribed by François Bregha

Book ID
104761109
Publisher
Springer
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
661 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-6369

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✦ Synopsis

Several barriers impede the free flow of environmental information in the government's hands to the public. The most important of these are the compartmentalization of environmental information among several departments, the manipulation of information to protect vested bureaucratic or political interests and, lastly, the withholding of information. The media's ineffective coverage of environmental issues and the small number of well-funded environmental groups constitute two additional institutional barriers to the broader dissemination of environmental information. Solutions proposed to reduce these barriers include the creation of an independent Commissioner on the environment reporting publicly to Parliament about the government's performance and the development of a widely-available system of indicators to inform the public about changes in environmental quality.

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