Law and Your Environment
The Plain UK guide to environmental law
Project Leader: Tamara Egede
The Aarhus Convention 1998 requires the UK and other member countries to facilitate public access to environmental information. This specific objective of the Convention has been implemented in the UK by the Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) 2004.
The United Kingdom Environmental Law Association (UKELA) supports this objective and other goals of the Aarhus Convention such as access to environmental justice and public participation in the environmental decision making process.
UKELA commissioned BRASS to conduct a scoping study and desk based research study on the need for a public access online resource on environmental law information. Findings from the study showed that the United Kingdom needed to do more to provide a free and accessible e-library that would help members of the public understand their environmental rights and obligations.
Based on the study findings, BRASS is currently developing Law and Your Environment (a public access e-library on environmental law information in the United Kingdom). The e-library was launched on 1st June 2009.
To visit the website 'The Law and Your Environment', please click here
