ANÁLISE DA CORRELAÇÃO ENTRE O RACISMO AMBIENTAL E OS INSTRUMENTOS GARANTIDORES DO MEIO AMBIENTE ECOLOGICAMENTE EQUILIBRADO

Abstract

The current research`s theme is Ambiental Racism as a violator of the right to an ecologically equilibrated environment, being justified by the crescent importance of studying the contemporary ambiental crysis from a legal perspective, as well as the ambiental impacts generated by it, which disproportionately affect socially vulnerable groups and communities. The general objective of this study is to analyze the instruments of environmental protection and management that are able to tackle Environmental Racism and guarantee the principle of an ecologically balanced environment. For this, it is necessary to: conceptualize Ambiental Racism through it’s historiographic perspective and through the brazilian assimilation of this phenomenon; conceptualize the constitutional principle of an ecologically balanced environment and its doctrinal and jurisprudential development; and analyze the instruments provided by the article 225 of the Federal Constitution that are able to tackle Environmental Racism and guarantee the right to an ecologically balanced environment. Thus, though a descriptive method of qualitative and bibliographical type, it is possible to determine that Environmental Racism is a phenomenon that violates the principle of balanced environment, and that the article 225 of the Federal Constitution prescribes instruments that are able to, if properly applied, combat Environmental Racism and guarantee the aforementioned principle, prescribed in the Citizen Constitution.