Protección constitucional del medio ambiente en España y Europa

The focus of law related to the environment recognized in the Spanish Constitutionembraces three distinguishable dimensions; subjective law, civil obligation, and guidingprinciple of the State’s activity. Nevertheless, until recently, a sector of doctrine, and theHigh Court itself, denied it such character, recognizing it simply as a guiding principle,from which there was no possibility of separating before the courts its presumed subjectivepretensions. But, and attending exclusively to the mechanisms of guarantee and location,it can be shown that this law forms part of fundamental rights. In this sense, the right toan adequate environment, to be effective, demands positive and negative obligations inthe name of the State, which would permit this to be a «derecho a un todo». Theimportance of its study from a constitutional point of view is therefore obvious, becauseas occurs with the majority of social rights, it possesses strong community roots, affectingevery person immersed in a given economic and social context with specific needswhich must be firmly satisfied to guarantee a dignified life.

• Fecha de publicación: 2011
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
• Repositorio: Vitela
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:vitela.javerianacali.edu.co:11522/232
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.javerianacali.edu.co/index.php/criteriojuridico/article/view/1015; https://vitela.javerianacali.edu.co/handle/11522/232
• Palabra clave: ambiente adecuado; protección y restauración del medio; dimensión constitucional del medio ambiente; funcionalización de los derechos y garantías el medio como bien jurídico; el ambiente como objeto del derecho; adequate environment; protection and restoration of the environment; constitutional dimension of the environment; functionalization of rights and guarantees; the environment as a legally-protected interest; the environment as an object of law
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0