INTERGERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN BRAZILIAN MINERARY PRODUCTION

Abstract

This work aims to expose how they have operated the mining activity in Brazil in the context of environmental sustainability and intergenerational justice, considering the damage that this activity causes to the environment and the necessity to preserve resources for use of future generations. Among the specific objectives are: to show Brazilian constitutional and infra-constitutional protection of the environment, the regulation of mining production in the country and to explain how intergenerational justice is supported in the environmental context. The great question of this work is to explain why natural resources must be preserved for future generations and how this can be threatened by minerary extractivism. The method of research used is the deductive, the method of procedure is the monograph and research technique is documentary and bibliographical. As a result we have that mining activity cannot be impeded, given its economic importance, but should be performed according to the constitutional and legal dictates of environmental protection, with the aim of not generating environmental damage, in addition to preserving natural resources and ensure a balanced environment for future generations, but knowing that this requires involvement of the government and the community.