Derecho ambiental: algunas reflexiones desde el derecho administrativo

Authors

  • Blanca Lozano Cutanda

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rap.200.20

Keywords:

Environmental law, climate change, European Union, environmental principles, sustainable development, non-regression clause, environmental taxes, environmental governance, environmental justice

Abstract

The work explores the inception and development of environmental law, with a particular focus on Spain. This is a relatively new area of law which emerged during the second half of the 20th century in response to international awareness on the need to curb the deterioration of the biosphere systems that sustain life. Its progression, however, has been remarkable, so much so that today it is a legal system endowed with its own principles (the new doctrinal principle of the non-regression is making inroads in constitutional case law as an alternative or reinforcement of sustainable development), and, moreover, impacts all other legal areas. This study examines the main problems and challenges currently faced in the course of the legal protection of the environment and goes on to offer various proposals aimed at improving the quality of environmental laws and making the application of the same more effective

Issue

Section

STUDIES