The substantive right to environment and the procedural environmental rights under the Aarhus Convention – Part I

• Authors: Jerzy Jendrośka

Title variants

PL

Materialne prawo do środowiska a uprawnienia proceduralne według Konwencji z Aarhus – Cześć I

Abstracts

EN

The current article provides Part I of the article which aims at examining the mutual relations between substantive and procedural environmental rights against the background of the typology of the substantive rights to the environment and challenges encountered when designing the right to a healthy environment. Part I provides the background analysis in this respect. It presents the origins of the term “right to environment” and various approaches to its meaning, in particular differences between the “right to have access to natural environment” and the “right to a healthy environment”. This is followed by presenting two possible approaches to the meaning of the term “right to a healthy environment” and their consequences. On this basis the article shows the three main methods of addressing concerns regarding environmental quality within human rights system and the relation between anthropocentric and ecocentric approach. Following this, the article presents the main challenges encountered when creating “right to a healthy environment”, in particular the issue of fitting this right into the existing system of protecting human rights and limitations related to “greening” of other human rights. Finally the current article provides a short overview of the the development of the respective legal provisions regarding environmental rights, including both human rights and Rights of Nature. Part I is concluded with some comments regarding the trend towards developing procedural environmental rights and expectations towards the UNECE Aarhus Convention and its role in protecting substantive environmental rights and participatory democracy – which is the link to Part II which addresses these issues in detail and concludes that access to justice provisions under the Aarhus Convention neither provide sufficient means to protect environmental rights nor – in light of the various conceptual roots of the Convention - should be treated as having only such a role.

PL

Niniejszy artykuł stanowi część I studium, którego celem jest zbadanie wzajemnych relacji między materialnymi i proceduralnymi prawami do środowiska na tle typologii materialnych praw do środowiska i wyzwań napotykanych przy projektowaniu prawa do zdrowego środowiska. Część I zawiera analizę kontekstu w tym zakresie. Przedstawiono w niej pochodzenie terminu "prawo do środowiska" oraz różne podejścia do jego znaczenia, w szczególności różnice pomiędzy "prawem do dostępu do środowiska naturalnego" a "prawem do zdrowego środowiska". Następnie przedstawiono dwa możliwe podejścia do znaczenia terminu "prawo do zdrowego środowiska" i ich konsekwencje. Na tej podstawie artykuł przedstawia trzy główne metody rozwiązywania problemów dotyczących jakości środowiska w ramach systemu praw człowieka oraz relację między podejściem antropocentrycznym i ekocentrycznym. Następnie w artykule przedstawiono główne wyzwania napotykane przy tworzeniu "prawa do zdrowego środowiska", w szczególności kwestię dopasowania tego prawa do istniejącego systemu ochrony praw człowieka oraz ograniczenia związane z "zazielenianiem" innych praw człowieka. Niniejszy artykuł zawiera też krótki przegląd rozwoju odpowiednich przepisów prawnych dotyczących praw środowiskowych, w tym zarówno praw człowieka, jak i praw przyrody. Część I kończy się kilkoma uwagami na temat tendencji do rozwijania proceduralnych praw środowiskowych i oczekiwań wobec Konwencji EKG ONZ z Aarhus oraz jej roli w ochronie materialnych praw środowiskowych i demokracji uczestniczącej - co jest łącznikiem z częścią II, w której szczegółowo omówiono te kwestie i stwierdzono, że przepisy dotyczące dostępu do wymiaru sprawiedliwości w ramach Konwencji z Aarhus ani nie zapewniają wystarczających środków ochrony praw środowiskowych, ani - w świetle koncepcji leżących u podstaw Konwencji - nie powinny być traktowane jako pełniące jedynie taką rolę.

Keywords

PL

prawo do środowiska; "zazielenienie" praw człowieka; ochrona praw podmiotowych; Konwencja z Aarhus; uprawnienia proceduralne

EN

right to environment; "greening" of human rights; protection of subjective rights; Aarhus Convention; procedural environmental rights

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 141-169

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Jerzy Jendrośka

• University of Opole

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Identifiers

DOI

10.25167/osap.5404

Biblioteka Nauki

29519252