Legal Protection of the Environment

• Autor(a) principal: de Sousa Varela, Luciana Rodrigues Krempel
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica da Faculdade de Direito de Franca
• Texto Completo: http://www.revista.direitofranca.br/index.php/refdf/article/view/130
• topic: Meio ambiente - Tutela ambiental - Direitos fundamentais - Sociedade do risco - Princípio da prevenção - Desenvolvimento sustentável.

The need to globally preserve the environment presents itself as a difficult task. The awareness of the environmental protection emerged as people began to realize that humankind's survival depends on a balanced and preserved environment. Despite all the concern about the environment, the need for economical development is unquestionable. Thus, in order to conciliate both, it is necessary to create rules that protect the environment at the exact extent that the economic development does not harm the ecosystem. Therefore, this is a real basic human right, a right for human beings to live in a healthy and balanced environment, a right that knows no borderlines and must be respected by all.