Aproximación al contenido de un Derecho Constitucional al medio ambiente
ISSN: 0423-4847
Year of publication: 2011
Volume: 59
Issue: 2
Pages: 169-208
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de Deusto: revista de Derecho Público
Abstract
The silence of the Spanish Constitution regarding the meaning of the term “environment” has prompted the development of theoretical constructs about its concept over an extremely long time. They identified the environment as the “nature”, which is with an inseparable reality and in danger as a result of human activity. These theoretical constructs are broad and therefore inappropriate to propose possible meaning of a subjective right to the “environment”. More so if the objective is to reclaim an autonomous wellbeing right invoked in Article 45 of the Constitution, with the exclusion of any other constitutional provision, thereby enabling their holders to live in comfort, without interference with their persons or the reduction of their goods and react against the interference of third parties in that peacefulness. From this follows the denial of the state’s protection of the nature of any environmental consideration
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