Direito fundamental ao ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado enquanto elemento indispensável da dignidade da pessoa humana

Abstract

The present study has as purpose the environmental quality within itself as a requirement for a life grounded in one of the foundations of the Constitution, that is: the dignity of the human person. Therefore it is necessary to enter into some specificities of the dignity of the human person principle specially concerning its treatment by the Republican Letter of 1988 as well as defending the environmental protection as a fundamental human right. In the context of a globalized society in which the increasing concern with economic development occurs at the expense of conserving the environmental heritage, it is imperative that public policies are adopted in order to guarantee the so proclaimed fundamental right to an ecologically balanced environment. The work has as scope to briefly expose the fundamentality aspects of the right to the environment under the legal constitutional bias with the intent of instigating some axiological order questionings which gravitate towards the theme, in the light of what the Constitution of 1988.