environmental law
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The increase of punishment for ill-treatment of dogs and cats and the persistence of the anthropocentrist paradigm in brazilian legislation
... ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6909-7889 ... ABSTRACT: The Federal Law 14.064/2020 altered the Article 32 of the Environmental Crimes Law, which refers to the ill-treatment of animals, in order to increase the punishment when the act is committed against dogs and cats, ...
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Relativization of environmental regulation by emergency state
Given the current context of economic and political crisis experienced in Brazil, we propose a discussion about the state’s role in the implementation of environmental protection measures, especially considering the scenario of environmental degradation in protected areas, such as conservation units, permanent preservation areas, among others, due to anthropic activities. Through a...
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As ecological disasters and human rights: constructing resilience by an environmental and ethical approach
Ecological disasters represent a great challenge for the environmental law, called to give answers to the increasing risks resulting from environmental degradation and vulnerabilities that aff ect resilience. Considering the indirect causes of disasters, as socioeconomic vulnerabilities and environmental degradation, the strategy in disaster management has changed. More than response and...
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The irretroativity of the new forest code and the jurisprudence of the supreme federal court
This paper points out some reflections about the constitutionality of the New Forestry Code, as viewed in the Brazilian Supreme Court judgement, performed in February of 2018. It is discussed the possibility of amnesty to environmental polluter agents, due to a misinterpretation of that legal diploma. Thus, starting from the analysis of the discourse of the votes of the Supreme Court Ministers,...
... Edson Damas Silveira ... Attorney in Roraima, specialist, master and doctor in law, professor of Specialization in ... Socio-Environmental Law of PUC / Pr. and of the Master in ... Environmental Law of UEA ... Email: e.damas.silveira@uol.com.br ... Serguei Aily Franco de Camargo ... -
A desconsideração da personalidade jurídica no direito ambiental: uma análise crítica de sua aplicação no Brasil e na Argentina
O tema ora investigado, "A desconsideração da personalidade jurídica no Direito Ambiental: uma análise crítica de sua aplicação no Brasil e na Argentina" relaciona-se às áreas do Direito Público e Privado em face da diversidade de previsões na legislação brasileira, como veremos, em destaque o Direito Empresarial, Civil e do Consumidor. Área e sub-área do Conhecimento Acadêmico: Direito...
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In search of the ethics of aproximation in law: the gap between present and future and the development of an ethical experience in the environmental crisis scenario / Por uma ética da aproximação no direito: o distanciamento entre presente e futuro e...
O presente artigo parte da crítica quanto ao distanciamento entre presente e futuro para propor uma análise de uma “ética da aproximação no Direito”. Apesar do termo crise ser comumente associado a uma situação problemática passageira, a “crise ambiental” aqui tomada apresenta-se como um “Mal” permanente, consequência das mudanças provocadas pela civilização tecnológica. Os riscos ambientais...
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Exemption of environmental licensing for rural activities in the state of tocantins a theoretical framework for an argumentative discourse
This paper is the result of a descriptive research aimed at providing a theoretical framework and legal arguments for future court rulings, based on the legislative amendment brought about by Law 2,713/13 from May 9, 2019, within the State of Tocantins, which caused the exemption of environmental licensing for the exercise of agroforestry activities, contrary to the historical evolution of the...
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Penal protection of the environment as constitutional human right
The environment, today consecrated doctrinally as human right of third generation and covered with constitutional provisions that elevate the status of fundamental rights in the context of different countries, it is legal right able to be effectively supervised by the penal law, however, lacks changes in its secular individualist dogmatic to defend a right that is at once individual and diffuse....
... under the logical-deductive reasoning and literature, the guarantee of the environment through penal law and makes proposals for better environmental protection, corresponding to them, in addition to [fitness] more appropriate penal standards, the establishment of a Court competent international ... - Access to environmental information in Chile
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The polluter pays principle in the brazilian superior courts: a critical analysis
The acknowledgment of the – importance and potential – of the polluter pays principle has the power to strengthen the various legal and environmental instruments dedicated to promoting the equitable distribution of socioenvironmental burdens and bonuses and the realization of the fundamental right to a balanced environment. This text is the result of a research carried out in 2014 and updated in 2
... Member of the Advisory Council of NIMA/PUC-Rio. Coordinator of the lato sensu Graduation Course (specialist level) in Environmental Law from PUC-Rio ... Email: daniamoreira@puc-rio.br ... Letícia Maria Rêgo Teixeira Lima ... Student for a Master’s Degree in State and ... -
Germany's ecological tax reform as paradigm to Brazil
This paper outlines a profile of Germany’s ecological tax reform, focused on energy taxation, seeking to comparatively analyze its elements, contributing to the greening of the Brazilian tax system. To this purpose, a parallel is drawn between the legal systems of the two countries, analyzing the constitutionality of ecologically earmarked taxes on energy (Ökosteuern), which in Germany were...
... GERMANY’S ECOLOGICAL TAX REFORM AS PARADIGM TO BRAZIL ... Julia Mattei ... Doctor in Environmental Tax Law and Master in Comparative Law (LL.M.) from the Univer-sity of Cologne, Germany. Professor of the professional master’s degree in Law and ... -
The transnational institutional dialogue in Belo Monte Dan Case
This article intends to discuss the relationship between the Supreme Court of Brazil and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the Belo Monte Dam Case, bearing in mind that states must cooperate to avoid transboundary environmental problems. The classic concepts of nation-state sovereignty and the permanent Sovereignty over natural resources based on territorial integrity and the right
... Mestrando em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Pós-graduado em International Environmental Law pelas Nações Unidas (United Nations Institute for Training and Research-UNITAR) com extensão em International Law pela Hague Academy of ... -
International traffic in animals and protection of dignity
The defense of biodiversity and the attributes concerning Dignity take on new contours with the advent of postmodernity. Using as an approach the hypothetical-deductive method and, as procedural the monographic study, we seek to analyze the criminal protection resulting from the crime of international trafficking in animals. Through the expansive conception of the concept of Dignity and its scope
... The amendment of the law on environmental crimes, suggesting new criminal types to address such a serious situation is the measure indicated. Innovation greatly inluences the new way ... -
Human dignity, homeland security and the enviromental refugees on the law 9.474/1997
... Law) and its mechanisms towards to the harmony between the human dignity and national security principles, as well as the issue of environmental refugees in the Brazilian law system. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the lack of harmony between both principles in the Refugee Law, ...
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O Estado de Direito Ambiental e a particularidade de uma hermenêutica jurídica
O objetivo geral deste artigo é investigar a construção teórica do Estado de Direito Ambiental e a particularidade de uma hermenêutica jurídica ambiental com vistas a minimizar os efeitos da crise ambiental. Os princípios interpretativos utilizados na hermenêutica ambiental não têm como oferecer respostas únicas e exclusivas, haja vista que, como consta na hermenêutica filosófica, o sentido a ser
... Abstract: The general purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical structure of the Environmental State of Law and the particular character of an environmental juridical hermeneutics, both aiming at minimizing the effects of the environmental ... -
The management of urban waste and waste pickers: can an occupational activity socially and culturally excluding generate social inclusion?
... E-mail: valpe@feevale.br ... ABSTRACT ... This article presents a relective study on the environmental problems of waste and the social inclusion of people who labor with recyclable materials. The following question arises: “What are the ...
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Environmental compensation: means for repairing for damage caused by usage of the area and protected natural resources / Compensações ambientais: meios de reparação dos danos pelo uso de área e recursos naturais protegidos
This research aims to identify and describe the legally established environmental compensations to which persons and legal entities are subjected to due to use of specially protected areas and natural resources for the development of economic activities within the Brazilian territory. The methodology used for the research was a qualitative approach using bibliographical and documentary data, such
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A proteção jurídica do meio ambiente na sociedade multicultural: o mote da sustentabilidade
O desenvolvimento econômico e social influenciou sensivelmente os mecanismos da natureza, culminando em uma crise ambiental de repercussões sérias no tocante à qualidade de vida e do próprio meio ambiente. Os anseios da sociedade pela tutela jurídica do meio ambiente foram incorporados pela Constituição Federal de 1988 que reconheceu o...
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Access to remedy for victims of corporate human rights abuse: civil liability litigation in Europe, enforcement in Latin America - Civil liability litigation in Europe, enforcement in Latin America
In the challenging search for access to effective remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuse and environmental harm, there has been a growing trend of transnational civil liability litigation before European courts. This trend raises private international law questions regarding the cross-border recognition and enforcement of judgments, which is an essential part of access to justice....
... ABSTRACT ... In the challenging search for access to effective remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuse and environmental harm, there has been a growing trend of transnational civil liability litigation before European courts. This trend raises private international law ... -
Regimes internacionais: teoria e metodologia de análise da efetividade dos regimes ambientais
Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar o que são regimes internacionais e apresentar uma plataforma metodológica de pesquisa para futuras avaliações sobre a efetividade dos regimes ambientais. Primeiro, faz-se um exame da teoria dos regimes sob a ótica de três correntes de pensamento das Relações Internacionais: Realismo, Liberalismo e Cognitivismo. Em segundo, os autores examinam critérios e opçõ
... Power and interdependence ... London: Logman , 2001 ... KISS, Alexandre. Introduction to international environmental law. Genebra, Suíça: UNITAR, 1997 ... KUHN, Thomas Samuel. The structure of scientific revolution ... 3. ed. Chicago, IL: University of ... -
Marina Silva supports regulator’s decision to block Petrobras drilling
Environment Minister Marina Silva stood up for the environmental protection agency Ibama by saying on Tuesday that the federal government would "comply with the law" and respect the regulators decision to reject ...
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Direito animal e pós-humanismo: Formação e autonomia de um saber pós-humanista
Este artigo trata da formação e autonomia do Direito Animal como componente curricular a ser oferecido nas Faculdades de Direito, tanto nos cursos de graduação como de pós-graduação (lato sensu e stricto sensu). Afirma-se que o Direito Animal adquiriu maturidade científica dentro do paradigma pós-humanista, o que permitiu o reconhecimento de um objeto próprio e princípios norteadores da matéria....
... Brasil, 2005. p. 203 ... 78 CASSUTO, David. The law of words: standing, environment, and other contested terms. Harvard Environmental Law Review ... Vol. 28. p. 79–128. 2004. p. 81 ... 79 SILVERSTEIN, Helena. Unleashing Rights. Law, Meaning, and the Animal ... Rights ... -
Usucapião especial de imóvel urbano - instrumento da política urbana. - Special prescription of urban property - resource of the environmental politics
Entre os instrumentos de tutela urbanística previstos pelo Estatuto da Cidade, insere-se o usucapião, individual e coletivo. O último permite a aquisição da propriedade a comunidades de pessoas indeterminadas, inclusive habitantes de favelas, com inegável benefício social. Em tais casos, a posse ad usucapionem deve, para ensejar a aquisição do domínio, ser exercida de acordo com sua função social,
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Soberania e meio ambiente: a adequação do direito internacional às novas necessidades de gestão ambiental e os mecanismos da ONU para resolução de conflitos
... Power and Interdependece ... 3.ed. London, Logman, 2001 ... KISS, Alexandre. Introduction to International Environmental Law , Genebra, Suíça: UNITAR, 1997 ... KISS, Alexandre e SHELTON, Dinah. Developments and Trends in International Environmental Law ...