A cidadania como condição para uma nova memória ecológica dos pobres

Abstract

The study was divided into three chapters, each of them subdivided into three sections. The first chapter is an analysis related to many social and constitutional changes experienced in Latin America in the last decades, considering these historical events had resulted in new constitutional readings that originated a new legal order. Simply formal texts gave way to federal constitutions with prescriptive connotation, based on an effective citizenship that gave voice to people historically disregarded, which changed the way of relationship, leastwise in the normative field, between man and the law, as well as between man and the environment. Furthermore, intending to understand witch are the elements that link man to the environment, there is an analysis of the topic from the perspective of Natural law and the human’s dignity, circumstances that reinforce the relevance and universality of the right for everyone to have a healthy environment. In the second chapter, the study was driven by environmental movements sponsored by the poorest communities in the last decades, with emphasis on the analysis of basic human needs in the environmental dimension and linking between poor people and the environment, which depends of the citizenship ‘s improvement to evolve. Lastly, in the third chapter, the study is concerned with the practical effects of the relationship between poor people and the environment in modern society, especially about the overconsumption, social distortions arising from such reality and perverse face of the dominant economic system.