Environmental Rights are a Human Right to a Healthy Environment: A Brief Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55677/ijlsar/V02I12Y2023-01Keywords:
healthy environment, environmental law, human rights, legal relationsAbstract
Environmental Rights is a branch of law that deals with the protection and safeguarding of the environment; and, is a set of legal rules that regulate people's relationships with nature, and it can be said that it is an interdisciplinary right, based on rules of private law, public law, administrative law, and criminal law. Therefore, it regulates the creation, modification, and fulfillment of legal relationships that condition the enjoyment, conservation, and improvement of the environment, inducing actions and abstentions in favor of the environment and the common good. As such, it is a fundamental human right to a safe, clean and healthy environment; and sustainable environmental governance cannot exist without the establishment of and respect for human rights.
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