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Summary

Patricia Quillacq obtained her degree in law in 1994, then decided to specialize in environmental law in 1999, obtaining her Master of Laws at the University of Auckland, New-Zealand and has been working on that field since then. She defended her doctoral thesis in February 2008 at the European Universitary Institute in Florence, Italy.

The topic of her research aimed to understand more precisely the sources and manifestations of the so-called principle of public participation in environmental matters, crystallised in the Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and more recently in the Aarhus Convention. Before joining the EUI PhD Program, she worked as a diplomat and legal adviser for the government of Andorra (both for the Ministry of foreign affairs and the Ministry and Environment), was president of a small conservation NGO, and is still collaborating with that little State where she comes from. She leads the Working Group of Environmental Law at the EUI and is involved in the Global Eco-Integrity Group work. She is also currently collaborating with the University of Florence on issues such as participation, planning and strategic decision-making as well as giving legal support to researchers of the GoverNat project, which aims to improve the participatory processes in environmental decision-making (most particularly in the management of water resources and biodiversity). Other fields of her interest: Implementation and Enforcement of International Environmental Law, Links and interactions between environmental law and other branches of law (Human Rights Law, Administrative Law), Environmental Ethics, Participatory Democracy.