The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Government Accountability for Environmental Stewardship

Murray Petrie ()

Chapter Chapter 6 in Environmental Governance and Greening Fiscal Policy, 2021, pp 143-166 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Citizens and CSOs are important agents of good governance and sustainable development. They play diverse roles in holding governments to account for their environmental stewardship through using invited spaces, and by initiating civic action. International norms on public access to information and participation and country examples of civic environmental activism are described. Two new potential green civil society instruments are put forward: an annual Green Guide to the Budget to highlight government performance on environmental stewardship and the environmental impacts of fiscal policies; and a new Environmental Governance Index to provide a cross-country ranking of the quality of environmental governance.

Keywords: Access to environmental information; Participation in environmental decision-making; Green citizen’s budget; Environmental indices; Environmental governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83796-9_6

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