<b>Popular Environmental Action and Caring Citizenship: The popular participation on the sustainable environmental management and the theoretical model of environmental State of Law</b> <br> doi:10.5007/2177-7055.2011v32n63p235

Abstract

The environment is essential for life. However, the model of human exploration, mainly for economic reasons, is predatory. More and more, the ecological crisis and the social risks are growing. In this sense, the environmental protections can not be evidenced as exclusive task of the state. The citizen must effectively participate in environmental preservation, inclusively through judicial instruments. Therefore, the Popular Environmental Action is an important mechanism of defense of diffuses interests. Although, the environmental citizenship is insipient. With the objective of promoting environmental awareness and dialogue between generations, through solidarity values, this study discusses the theoretical model of the Environmental Rule of Law and the integrated environment. Thus, this research intent to analyze the Popular Environmental Action and the solidarity support of the Environmental Rule of Law, looking for the effects of the judicial participation of the population in the environmental management. The methodology is bibliographic, descriptive and exploratory.