caa a22 4500 469029900 CHVBK 20180323132740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00407512 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00407512 Bregha François Rawson Academy of Aquatic Science, Ottawa, Canada aut Institutional barriers to environmental information [Elektronische Daten] [François Bregha] 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. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 191-200 0167-6369 20:2-3<191 1992 20 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407512 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407512 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bregha François Rawson Academy of Aquatic Science, Ottawa, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 191-200 0167-6369 20:2-3<191 1992 20 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer