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Jurisprudència ambiental a Catalunya (Primer Semestre 2022)

A decade ago, Bolivia gained international attention when it approved the world’s first set of national laws challenging current paradigms and recognizing rights to Nature or Mother Earth. This innovative regulatory avenue to safeguard nature challenges the mainstream juridical anthropocentric orientation and intends to provide a framework to overcome ecologically destructive practices that threaten Mother Earth by recognizing her intrinsic value. Bolivia’s efforts to legally protect the rights of Mother Earth constitute a significant milestone both at national and international levels. However, this can only be considered as the first step towards bringing about deeper and transformative change in the country. Since the adoption of the aforementioned laws, their implementation lagged behind. In the meantime, environmentally destructive legal and policy developments have been promoted, for instance to allow the expansion of the agribusiness and of the agricultural frontier, as well as oil and gas exploration and exploitation within indigenous territories and protected natural areas. Overall, the past ten years have shown time and again that economic and political interests have priority over the observance and realization of Nature´s rights in Bolivia.

The recognition of nature as an entity subject to rights undoubtedly generated an important change in the traditional conception and interpretation of law, which has always had man as its fundamental axis, conceived both in its individual and collective dimension. Thus, the category of subject of rights reserved for human beings opens a space for the inclusion of nature, broadening the spectrum of this recognition, just as it had been done in the past for legal persons. Recognizing the natural environment as the center of law generates a change in the paradigm that places the human being as the axis and the reason for law. And although the changes generate resistance, the situation of environmental threat that humanity faces will leave it no other way than to modify its conceptions and behaviors with respect to its role in relation to the environment.

Jurisprudencia ambiental en la Región de Murcia (Primer semestre de 2022)

Jurisprudencia ambiental del Tribunal Supremo (Primer semestre 2022)

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Asturias (Primer semestre 2022)

Jurisprudencia ambiental de la Unión Europea (Primer semestre 2022)

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Portugal (Primer Semestre 2022)

Jurisprudencia ambiental en Extremadura (Primer semestre 2022)

CASADO RAIGÓN, RAFAEL; MARTÍNEZ PÉREZ, ENRIQUE J. (dirs.); JIMÉNEZ PINEDA, EDUARDO (coord.), La contribución de la Unión Europea a la protección de los recursos biológicos en espacios marinos de interés internacional, Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia, 2021, 610 p. ISBN: 978-84-1397-526-9