The Public Prosecutor’s Office as a protagonist of public environmental governance policies

Abstract

This article lists as its central theme the Public Prosecutor’s Office as an inducer of public environmental governance policies. It is known that the Federal Constitution of 1988 elevated the ecologically balanced environment as a fundamental right, under the terms of article 225 of the constitutional text, at the same time it attributed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, among other duties, the protection of the environment, through instruments extrajudicial or judicial. To achieve constitutional objectives, which is the quality of life for the community, through a healthy and balanced environment, the exercise of environmental governance is an indispensable condition for this task. In this context, environmental governance is an essential mechanism for implementing effective policies that can meet the requirements for preserving environmental quality and ecological balance. Governance is essentially instrumental, as it aims to facilitate the coordination and implementation of common strategies between different governmental and non-governmental entities. Access to justice, as an aspect of procedural environmental rights, alongside access to information and public participation in decision-making, finds support in the Public Prosecutor's Office as an agent of transformation of social reality, engaged in conflict resolution in an exercise of environmental governance.