PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY TOOLS AND EFFECTS OF REFERENDUM AS ONE OF THESE TOOLS ON RIGHT TO ENVIRONMENT

Democracy has huge importance in our century and it’s the best system for protecting human rights and public order. On the other hand, societies have no alternative out of democracy which is accepted as an actual, modern and universal virtue. Also, democracy can not be thought in a isolated and artifical concept. It consists of many components as justice, rule of law and modern sociological virtues. Democracy can be practised with different political tools. As you see, this article contains practical tools of democracy and its’ effects solving some environmental dilemmas. Environmental issues should be based on indigenious people’s precedences by reason of direct and territorial hazardous of practising enterprise projects. At the same time, dabates about contamination causes some human rights problems also include race discrimination as well as environmental rights. Tools of participatory democracy have vital significance for national or international level desicion making about environment. Then, people have got crucial opportunities to protect environment via participatory democracy tools