Revista do Direito Público (Apr 2016)

The construction of environmental awareness and the importance of international organizations in addressing global environmental issues.

  • Glaucia Cardoso Teixeira Torres,
  • Tânia Lobo Muniz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/1980-511X.2016v11n1p183
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 183 – 204

Abstract

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The work, using the literature review of the literature and the indirect documentary analysis of institutional reports produced by international organizations, focuses on the development and strengthening of environmental awareness at the international level . Initially performs a context of contemporary production system and the phenomenon of globalization and its influence on the environment . Discusses the major conferences organized by the United Nations Organizations and what were their main contributions to the increase of the environmental issue discussion on the global agenda . Reflects at the end , about the importance of International Organizations as articulators of states around the environmental preservation in the contemporary global context.

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