A construção do sentimento constitucional ambiental no Brasil

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the construction of constitutional environmental sense in Brazil. For this, be brought into discussion the contemporarary environmental crisis in the risk society, the environmental paradigms and its crisis, the constitutional sense as a legal category an its normative force. Still, a brief overview of environmental issues will be held in the history of brazilian constitutionalism, discussing environmental issues in the Constitution of 1988, with the fundamental righ-duty to an ecologically balanced environment and the paradigm of environmental holism, based on deep ecology. The methodological option was dialectical materialism of Marx, theoretical framework was the theory of the constitutional sense of Pablo Lucas Verdú. The change in posture of humans against environmental problems is essential to the construction of environmental constitutional sense.