APPLICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF NATURE IN ECUADOR

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Rene Patricio Bedón Garzón

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The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador has established rights in favour of a constitutional nature including constitutional reserves for its creation. In this way, there have been several constitutional protection actions to enforce these rights and specially for guarantee the right of nature and its integral conservation, the suspension of works had already been stopped temporarily before obtain the environmental permits from the government in order to generate environmental impacts; It has applied the precautionary principle and activities have been suspended due to lack of scientific evidence; and rights have been weighted in order to allow restriction to private property so that remediation tasks are performed an environmental event is achieved and to guarantee the right of nature restoration.

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Rene Patricio Bedón Garzón, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador y Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar

Decano de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad de Los Hemisferios de Quito y Profesor de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador y de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar