Right to a Healthy and Ecologically Balanced Environment Based on Education as an Environmental Management Instrument

Abstract

This work arose as part of the project for linking with the society of the Law career of the University of Otavalo called Legal Observatory for the prevention of collective rights. The objective was to analyze the right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment from education as an instrument of environmental management, assumed substantively and adjectively as a fundamental right in the Ecuadorian legal system. For this, documentary research was carried out with a qualitative approach. As results of the investigation, it stands out that the predominant conception of the environment is naturalist; environmental education can contribute to the emergence of a culture of peace, returning to a common cause social actor. From all this, it is concluded that environmental education will promote awareness, learning and teaching of knowledge, skills, values, duties, rights and behaviors in the population, for the protection and conservation of the environment and sustainable development, as an environmental management instrument for the exercise of the fundamental right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment.