OBJECTIVES OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING

Abstract Public participation in international environmental decision-making can seek to fulfil different goals. This article explains how these goals affect the design and appraisal of participatory processes highlights under-recognised value law determining objectives public forums. A doctrinal analysis finds that substantive are most prominent current law, but a normative rationale for could be gaining more formal endorsement through growing legal recognition linkages between procedural human rights protection.