Abstract

CORONEL NUNEZ, Guido Estuardo; MEDINA PENA, Rolando  and  PUERTA HERNANDEZ, Francisco. Environmental criminal law in the protection of forest ecosystem services. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2018, vol.10, n.2, pp. 74-83.  Epub Feb 03, 2018. ISSN 2218-3620.

The article addresses the treatment of environmental criminal law to the protection of these ecosystems, in response even without the required effectiveness to the international concern for environmental problems and the real disconnection between protection, the benefits provided by ecosystems and the irrational way of action of the human being before nature. As fundamental methods, the exegetical-analytical method is used to determine the meaning and scope of the regulations in force in this area, in conjunction with the legal institutions related to the subject, for which the validity and effectiveness of the current regulations on the matter; the doctrinal in correlation with the analysis of the current legislation, to verify the need for its improvement; the historical one, to abound in the antecedents, the context and formation of the normative and iusophosophical doctrines that serve as its foundation; and finally that of Comparative Law, which allowed us to know the legal treatment given by other systems of Law to a similar reality and to assess critically if it merits a reference point for the purposes of this investigation.

Keywords : Ecosystem services; environmental criminal law; environmental administrative law; forests.

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