El medio ambiente y los derechos humanos: su concepción constitucional.

Abstract

The study of Ecology Law conforms an indisputable scientific reality, issue that originates a reflection on the real object of ecology. The study of the natural environment is not solely related to biological, chemi- cal, or medical aspects. Ecology, as intimately related to the origin and future of human race as such, sup- poses a new dilemma, that is to say, a new conception on the way human beings organize their relation- ships among them, with nature and with their sense of the universe. That is why Ecology Law, as part of the normative Mexican legal system, as a regulator of social, political, and economical relationships within the Mexican State, and as protector of the development and achievements of the values and purposes contained in the Political Constitution, is presented, in its relationship with the Constitution, in a real and hierarchical relationship, complex and diffuse. This opens the doors to scientific research and its derived contribution for the understanding of such technical and philosophical dilemma, which currently consti- tutes an undeniable reality and an unavoidable priority.