Environmental law and sustainable development: an analysis of the judicialization of social relations

AutorSerli Genz Bölter - Cristiane Derani
CargoPhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Professor of the Master's Program in Public Policy and Development at Federal University of the Southern Frontier - UFFS. Email: sgbolter@hotmail.com - PhD in Law from the University of São Paulo (1996). PhD studies (CNpq scholarship) at J.W.Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt. ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF THE
JUDICIALIZATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONS
Serli Genz Bölter
PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Professor of the
Master’s Program in Public Policy and Development at Federal University of the Southern
Frontier - UFFS.
Email: sgbolter@hotmail.com
Cristiane Derani
PhD in Law from the University of São Paulo (1996). PhD studies (CNpq scholarship) at
J.W.Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt. Post-doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris. Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Email: cristiane.derani@ufsc.br
http://dx.doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v15i33.1242
ABSTRACT
    
   
concepts of sustainable development and the relation with the rights of
nature. The analysis carried out takes as reference decisions issued by the
Federal Supreme Court of Brazil in the period after the Federal Constitution

the implementation of the Brazilian Forest Code of 2001, judged in 2005;
the second, a decision on the importation of recyclable tires judged in 2009;
and the third, the decision on a Law of the State of Ceará on the vaquejada,
judged in 2016. In all attempts to identify the changes that the decisions
demonstrate in the treatment bias from a development and sustainability
perspective. It is argued that the socio-environmental crisis requires the
construction of a new paradigm in the treatment of environmental issues
in which the notions of sustainable development and nature as a right are
present.
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Keywords: judicialization; development; sustainability; rights of nature.
DIREITO AMBIENTAL E DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL: UMA
ANÁLISE DA JUDICIALIZAÇÃO DAS RELAÇÕES SOCIAIS
RESUMO
O presente artigo trata da judicialização das relações sociais,
        
        
    
         

 

        

         
     

    

Palavras-chaves:   
direitos da natureza.
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INTRODUCTION
We live in a time marked by complexity. A time of change, crisis
and of great challenges. The promises of modernity were just that: promises.
The expectations of postmodernity are discouraging. What stands in the
face of contemporary uncertainties is the bet on diversity, on the plurality
and the need for new parameters for the construction of answers.While
    
attempts at new contours, new values and, therefore, new perspectives on
the models that surround us.
The study of Environmental Law in a Rule of Law is, to some

Law in Brazil is the result of a process of redemocratization of the Brazilian
State in the context of Latin America: limited, copied, formal, dogmatic

the Law can be guaranteed, be enforced, through formalization. It is due
to the complexity of this matter, due to the implications it poses for the
organization of life in society, that it is opted to analyze it on the perspective
of sustainable development, that is, on how to establish the relationship
between sustainable development and Environmental Law after the 1988
Constitution, in Brazil.
 
have evidenced an intervention of the Judiciary Power in the social
relations. In this paper, we seek to identify the extent to which such
mechanisms of implementation of legal norms allow advances or setbacks

one of the objectives of the present study to understand which are the
subjects that can appear as propellers or mediators of the phenomena of
the judicialization.
As a research procedure, a jurisprudential search was conducted

(sustainable development), availability of information (judgment in full)
and temporal (post-1988). 43 full judgments have been found with the
term ‘sustainable development’. The purpose of the analysis is to prove
    
the same time identify the treatment of sustainable development and the

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