浅析环境信息公开的作用

环境信息公开能提高环境保护参与者的环境意识,改变他们的环境行为和行动,解决"市场失灵"、"政治失灵"的问题,教育环境保护各利益相关者,推进决策过程中的民主进程。要提高环境信息的作用,应公开公众所面临的环境风险,公开的环境信息必须可靠,有关的环境信息必须对公众有用且方便获得,政府机构应关注公众对环境信息的反馈。

Brief Analysis on the Functions of Environmental Information Publicity

Environmental information publicity can increase the awareness of different partici- pants of environmental protection, change their behavior and action, solve the problem of government ineffectiveness and market ineffectiveness, educate stakeholders of environmen- tal protection and push forward democratic procss in decision making. Improving the func- tions of environmental information publicity requires to make environmental risks confronted by the public known to them, the information made public must be reliable, relevant infor- mation must be useful and easy to get, and the government should be concerned about the in- formation feedback from the public.