Parliamentary Oversight in Environmental Governance: Evidence from Uzbekistan

This study examines parliamentary oversight as an institutional mechanism of accountability in environmental governance, using Uzbekistan as an empirical case. It compares three policy areas - water-resource management, renewable-energy development, and the protection of urban green spaces - to assess how parliamentary oversight continues beyond formal hearings and decisions. The article argues that oversight effectiveness depends on the continuity of the accountability cycle rather than on the number of parliamentary activities. On this basis, it develops the Public Value–Balanced Parliamentary Environmental Accountability Framework (PVB-PEAF), a five-stage model linking executive answerability, parliamentary assessment, proportionate response, implementation monitoring, and environmental public value verification.