A contribuição da lei de acesso à informação para a ética ambiental como forma de concretização para a cidadania ambiental

Abstract

The environmental citizenship aims to an active participation by civil society, especially in decisions related to them and the environment. Under this perspective, environmental protection can’t be a private function of the government, but it requires new ways of communication and popular participation. It is important to note that the citizenship presupposes an effective participation of the politician actors potentially affected by the decisions, not only in the project supervision, but on decisions themselves. Besides, to achieve this kind of citizenship, the access to environmental information, which is all available information about environmental components, the activities that affect or will affect these components and the administrative conducts and environmental management programs. Because of the importance of these information to reach the environmental citizenship, the Brazilian law has many devices which aims to achieve the access to information and environmental information. Therefore, this paper studies how these devices can contribute to environmental information access, indispensable to reach environmental citizenship.