This map displays wetland area per capita by subcounty,
represented by the height of the red bar. Wetland area per
person varies broadly among the 938 subcounties with
data.
Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.
Laws alone are not enough to ensure environmental protection. Civil society organizations often play a critical role in bringing those laws to life. In Uganda, Greenwatch has done exactly that for the country’s laws on access to environmental information, the first of which passed in 1998.
Norbert Henninger, Elena Petkova, Crescencia Maurer, and Fran Irwin with John Coyle and Gretchen Hoff
August, 2002
Addresses the status of access to information, participation, and justice in nine countries – Chile, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and the United States.