THE CONSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
Paradoxically, for some of us, and first of all, our lives depend on the Planet Earth on which we live. A healthy Planet Earth will allow us a beautiful, long and healthy life. In international treaties or conventions, as well as in constitutions, there is written about the right to a healthy envi...
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Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Challenges of the Knowledge Society |
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| Online Access: | http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2018_articles/index.php?dir=3_public_law%2F&download=CKS_2018_public_law_034.pdf |
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| Summary: | Paradoxically, for some of us, and first of all, our lives depend on the Planet Earth on which we live. A healthy Planet
Earth will allow us a beautiful, long and healthy life. In international treaties or conventions, as well as in constitutions, there
is written about the right to a healthy environment, a right that is usually recongnized to each human being. Although this right
is recognized, protected and even guaranteed, shouldn't we speak about ourfundamental duty to ensure a healthy environment?
On the other hand, even if we are speaking about the right or the duty to a healthy environment, or both of them, first of all,
from a legal point of view, there should be a constitutional regulation and not just the need to ensure a healthy environment.
This article, being the first step in analyzing this fundamental right of every person, examines some of the international
regulations of the right to a healthy environment, but also some of the provisions from different documents of international
organizations at regional level, like Council of Europe, or European Union, or Organization of American States, or African
Commission on Human and Peoples' Right, and also from eleven constitutions of Eastern Europe countries, but also some
aspects regarding the content of this right. |
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| ISSN: | 2068-7796 2068-7796 |