Environmental neoconstitutionalism and Nature's rights in the framework of the new latin american constitutionalism: The case of Colombia

Abstract

 In spite of not having consecrated a special title or chapter on the rights of nature or nature as subject of juridical protection in Colombian Political Constitution of 1991, some principles rights of diverse types, special or explicit consecrations in matters of environmental law and the block of constitutionality have allowed the real construction of the concept that can be visualized in diverse social movements, environmentalists and protection of mother earth, social and political pacts of various territorial and national actors, and jurisprudential pronouncements “heretical”, for the traditional doctrine, which have even allowed to think of a constitutional reform to insert this novel category in the Political Text of 1991.