Abstract
A strong link between the environmental issues and the public involvement has been established since the end of the seventies (Kaase 1982). The resolutions 37/7 (28 October 1982 relative to the Nature World Chart) and 45/94 (14 December 1990 relative to the protection of environment) of the general assembly of the UN, constituted the European Chart on environment and health adopted in Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany (8 December 1989) and insisted on the necessity of making the public focus on the main question of protection of environment. The European community has dealt with environmental policies since the seventies under the pressure of ecological mobilizations and self-organized groups which were focusing on the necessity of protecting and respecting the environment. These environmental associations aimed at defining new participatory tools so that the public could be well-informed and conscious of this necessity.
