environmental law

Carolina martinez paez

Derecho

Environmental law is an instrument to solve problems of both justice and environmental

efficiency.

Principles of Environmental Law

 The environment is a determiner of obligations and responsibilities.

 The protection of the environment in such a way as to ensure the effective possibility

of enjoying the right to a healthy environment.

 Intergenerational Justice.

 Property and collective usufruct.

 Environmental justice.

 Individual and collective responsibility.

 Ecological sustainability.

 Justice and Environmental Efficiency.

Objectives of Environmental Law

 Legal protection of the environment.

 Achievement of environmental justice.

 Redefinition of the Society-Nature relations.

 Justice: Linked to ethical and political criteria to assign burdens and risks.

 Efficiency: Associated with technical cost-benefit criteria. Political tool.