Transparency in conservation
Rare Species, Secret Files, and Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4758641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mika Oksanen (0000-0003-2426-5727, University of Turku, corresponding author), Markku Oksanen (0000-0002-4531-2361), Anne Kumpula (University of Turku) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 975-991 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2013.775726 |
| OpenAlex | W1978421882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
In many areas of environmental policy, there are clashing trends and conflicting views concerning the accessibility of information and its appropriate use. Some countries restrict access to environmental information if access compromises the protection of species, but this contrasts with environmentalist claims for transparency, the right to know, and the creation of the ‘green public sphere’. Can access to (biodiversity) information ever be justifiably denied? The paradoxical trends in environmental policy can be explained in terms of the dual role of information: as much as it contributes to environmental causes, it simultaneously enables people to utilise or destroy the objects of preservation. While recognising the problematic nature of restricting transparency, epistemic asymmetries – the kind of case in which public authorities have access to such information to which the public is denied access – can sometimes be justified in terms of security
Access to information · Business · Computer security · Democracy · Information access · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Public access · Right to know · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Computer Science · Environmental Conservation and Management · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Public Administration
Man's responsibility for nature
Deliberative Democracy and the Environment
Sustainability
Greening Liberal Democracy
IX.—Essentially Contested Concepts
Democracy and the Environment
Rethinking Green Politics
The Green State
Information Disclosure and Environmental Rights
The biodiversity information clearing-house mechanism (CHM) as a global effort
Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |