The environmental right as a metavalue in the envirormental paradigm

Abstract

This article aims to present how the environment is conceived in the environmental paradigm, for this purpose, using the deductive method. The hypothesis to be sustained is that this paradigm is the most adequate to manage social and economic relations, considering the environment as a metavalue, that is, the right to access a healthy environment becomes indispensable for the realization human development and the enjoyment of other human rights, since they are interdependent, and because it is impossible to think of the satisfaction of these rights dissociated from an ecologically balanced environment. To this end, the first topic will address important concepts such as the ecological minimum existential and dignity, while the second topic will deal with the international protection of the environment, demonstrating how global environmental governance is a viable way to reach the environmental paradigm, and how the movement of well-living managed to overcome this paradigm.