Articles & reports
On this page, you will find articles and reports I have written in English from 1999 and onwards.
2025 Will European biodiversity be sacrificed on the Green Transition altar…? – Perspectives on habitats and species protection in times of energy crises. Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2024:2 (published 2025-01-22)
2024 Avosetta meeting EU Water law/Sweden and Recent developments in Swedish law and practise
2023 Nordic Environmental Permitting Processes – results from a comparative study of environmental law and processes in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and Finland. Nordic Council of Ministers (Nordiska rådet) 2023-07-03
2023 Avosetta meeting: Green cities/Sweden and Recent developments in Swedish law and practise
2023 The Aarhus Convention – a closed society in the name of openness? Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2022:2 (published 2023-02-15)
2022 Avosetta meeting: Integrated permit regimes in conflicting times/Sweden and Recent developments/Sweden
2021. On the information study. Communications with the Aarhus secretariat (2021-06-13 and 2021-06-19), chair’s report to the 7th MoP of the Aarhus Convention (2021-10-19), including letter to the Bureau 2019-06-18
2021 Avosetta meeting: Strategic Environmental Assessments and Climate Litigation
2021: Can nature get it right? A study on the Rights of Nature in the European context. European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the JURI Committee, Brussels 2021-03-01
2021: Access to justice in information cases in twelve countries parties to the Aarhus Convention. UNECE 2020-02-28
2020: Should locals have a say when it’s blowing? The influence of municipalities in permit procedures for windpower installations in Sweden and Norway. Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2020:1, pp. 59-79
2020: The Last Say? Comment on CJEUs Judgement in the Tapiola Case (C-674/17). Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law (JEEPL) 2020 p. 117-130
2019 有效的司法途径？ ——欧盟各成员国《奥胡斯公约》第九条第 3 款、第 4 款 （公民诉诸司法权利保障）执行情况的综合报告 (2013 Effective Justice in Chinese)
2019 Avosetta meeting: Air quality law
2019: Anything goes, but… Comment on the opinion by Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe in the Tapiola case (C-674/17). Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law (JEEPL) 2019 p. 305-318
2019: Understanding the Nuts and Bolts – Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Environmental Litigation: National solutions, EU requirements and current challenges. In maganing facts and feelings in environmental governance. Ed. Squintani & Darpö & & Lavrysen & Stoll. Edward Elgar Publishing 2019, p. 82-102
2018 Avosetta meeting: Flexibilities with regard to meeting EU regulatory objectives and requirements
2018: Pulling the trigger. ENGO standing rights and the enforcement of environmental obligations in EU law. In Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond. Ed. Sanja Bogojević and Rosemary Rayfuse. Hart Publishing 2018, pp. 253-281
2018: Principle 10 and Access to Justice. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law – Principles of Environmental Law. Ed. Ludwig Krämer & Emanuela Orlando. Edward Elgar Publishing 2018, pp. 379-402
2017 Avosetta meeting: Species protection
2017: 第10原則と司法アクセス (“Dai 10 Gensoku to Shihou Akusesu”). Review of Administrative Law (Gyoseiho-kenkyu, Osaka University) No. 18 (May 2017) pp. 45-72
2017: On the Bright Side (of the EU’s Janus Face). The EU Commission’s Notice on access to justice in environmental matters. Journal of European Environmental and Planning Law (JEEPL) 2017 p. 373
2016 Avosetta meeting: Permit procedures for industrial installations and infrastructural projects: Assessing integration and speeding up
2016: Book review: de Sadeleer: EU Environmental Law and the Internal Market. European Journal of risk regulation (EJRR), 2016 (3), p. 644
2016: The Commission: a sheep in wolf’s clothing? On infringement proceedings as a legal device for the enforcement of EU law on the environment, using Swedish wolf management as an example. JEEPL 2016 p. 270
2015 Avosetta meeting: Access to Information
2015: Thrown to the Wolves – Sweden one again flouts EU standards on species protection and access to justice. Nordic Environmental Law Journal 2015:1, p. 7
2015: Access to Justice in Environmental Decision-making in Sweden. Standing for the public concerned, the scope of review on appeal and costs. In The legal debate on access to justice for environmental NGOs. Umweltbundesamt 99/2017, Chapter 6 (pp. 125-150)
2014: Under fire from all directions. In: The Habitats Directive in its EU environmental law context: Edited by Charles-Huber Born et al., London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 348-372
2014: Article 9.2 of the Aarhus Convention and EU law. Some remarks on CJEUs case law on access to justice in environmental decision-making. JEEPL 2014 p. 367
2014: The EIA Directive and Access to Justice – Some remarks on the new directive, old provisions and the rapid development of case-law.To be published in a coming anthology on the amendments to the EIA Directive, Europa Publishing in the fall of 2014
2013: Effective Justice? Synthesis report of the study on the Implementation of Articles 9.3 and 9.4 of the Aarhus Convention in the Member States of the European Union. Europan Commission 2013-10-11
2013: The Wild Has No Words. JEEPL 2013 p. 250
2012: Study on the Implementation of Article 9.3 and 9.4 of the Aarhus Convention in 17 of the Member States of the European Union. National report from Sweden
2012: Effective Justice? Synthesis report of the study on the Implementation of Articles 9.3 and 9.4 of the Aarhus Convention in 17 of the Member States of the European Union
2011: Brussels Advocates Swedish Grey Wolves. On the encounter between species protection according to Union law and the Swedish wolf policy. SIEPS Policy Analysis 2011:8
2009: Biological Diversity and the Public Interest. From de Lege 2009 (Yearbook of the Faculty of Law, Uppsala Universitet), p. 201
2008: On the Comparison of Environmental Law. Darpö, J & Nilsson, A. Ur Miljøretlige emner, Festskrift til Ellen Margrethe Basse (Jurist- og økonomforbundets forlag, Köpenhamn, 2008), Kap. 11
2007: Justice through the Environmental Courts? Lessons Learned from the Swedish Experience
2005: Key-issues in regulating contaminated land in Europe. Prevention and remedying of environmental damage. Bruylant/Bryssel (Bel.)
1999: The Barseback Case. EL 1999:3 CS 36