Sustainable development: tripartite harmony in the legal Amazon

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the challenges to be overcome to achieve sustainable development in the Legal Amazon. On the one hand, the incessant search for economic growth, on the other the need for social vitality and, finally, the universal requirement of environmental quality. Based on a documental-bibliographic research in the doctrine, jurisprudence and national and international legislation, it is demonstrated that environmental sustainability besides being a fundamental right is the opportunity to provide to the Amazonian population a socioeconomic growth in tune with the environmental management. This requires governmental action. It is contemplated, the research, that this intervention of the Public Power is indispensable to protect the dignity of the human person and also guarantee the constitutional rights not only to the population of today, but especially the future generations.