Variable: Environmental Democracy Index
QoG Code: (edi_edi)
Description:
EDI measures to which degree countries have enacted legally binding rules that provide for environmental information collection and disclosure, public participation across a range of environmental decisions, and fair, affordable, and independent avenues for seeking justice and challenging decisions that impact the environment.
It is an average of 3 pillars that measure:
1) the right to freely access information on environmental quality and problems (Access to information pillar);
2) the right to participate meaningfully in decision-making (Participation pillar);
3) the right to seek enforcement of environmental laws or compensation for harm (Justice pillar).
The pillars are calculated by combining 75 legal indicators that are scored from 0 (worst) to 3 (best), producing an overall score that falls within this same range. The pillars are given equal weight when creating an average.
Type of variable: Continuous
Categories:
Environment
Find this variable in:
Environmental Indicators - 2021
Original Dataset
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia (1993-)
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Madagascar
- Malaysia (1966-)
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan (1971-)
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Romania
- Russia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- St Lucia
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe