Environment, Human Rights and Procedural Aspects. The jurisdictional role in environmental matters in Uruguay

Medio ambiente, Derechos Humanos y proceso. El rol jurisdiccional en materia ambiental en el Uruguay

Ambiente, Direitos Humanos e Processo. O papel jurisdicional em matéria ambiental no Uruguai

Tommasino, Beatríz
Detalles Bibliográficos
2022
Medio ambiente
Derecho ambiental
Derechos humanos
Medio ambiente saludable
Procesos colectivos
Intereses difusos
Intereses colectivos
Perfil del juez
Environment
Environmental law
Human rights
Healthy environment
Collective action proceedings
Diffuse interests
Collective interests
Profile of the judge
Meio ambiente
Direito ambiental
Direitos humanos
Meio ambiente saudável
Processos coletivos
Iteresses difusos
Interesses coletivos
Perfil do juiz
Español
Universidad de Montevideo
REDUM
http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistaderecho/article/view/1089
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12806/1997
Acceso abierto
Atribución 4.0 Internacional
Resumen:
Sumario:This research studies the main characteristics of the environment and environmental law; its conceptualization, principles, instruments and institutional framework in Uruguay. Likewise, it seeks to determine the relationship between the phenomenon of the environment and environmental law with two sectors of legal knowledge: human rights and procedural law. Regarding human rights, it is concluded that there is a human right to a healthy environment, established legally and constitutionally, as well as in various international instruments to which Uruguay is a party. The link with procedural law is present when it becomes necessary to defend this human right to a healthy environment before the courts, from the perspective of diffuse or collective interests, and even of individual interests. It is therefore useful to have an adequate profile of the judge called to rule on this type of matters, trained to adopt, with knowledge of the subject, the necessary preventive protection measures and to decide accordingly.The study of the most important national court decisions on this subject and of some noteworthy foreign cases is also carried out.