Considerations regarding environment protection in human settlements

• Author: Gavril Paraschiv
• Position: University - Romania
• Pages: 152-156

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 3 (2013), pp. 152-156

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CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING ENVIRONMENT

PROTECTION IN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS

G. Paraschiv

Gavril Paraschiv

Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Craiova,

“Spiru Haret” University, Romania

*Correspondence: Gavril Paraschiv, 30 General Magheru St., Râmnicu Vâlcea, Vâlcea, Romania

E-mail: gavril.paraschiv@yahoo.com

Abstract

Across time, the concept regarding the quality of life determined public authorities to

take into consideration the improvement of urban and rural space, the zoning, the servitudes,

imposed on individuals and even authorities, being gradually accepted in the name of the

necessity for a collective welfare, including from the point of view of the natural environment.

Inveterated legal regulation, which concern the protection of ancient monuments in order to

save common cultural heritage, were gradually added to the ecological requests, which tend

to acquire preponderance compared to the traditional domains of urbanism and territory

planning.

Human settlements represent the traditional environment of human communities, thus

the approach to their sustainable and ecological development must be primarily acquired.

Resolving ecological issued in human settlements greatly depends of the dimensions of

localities, of their relations with the free territory, of the nature and manner of exploiting this

territory, of the existent resources, of the network communication means, of the industrial

objectives, etc. Thus many parameters must be taken into consideration when studying the

habitats of these settlements compared to those used in natural ecosystems.

Key-words: the quality and protection of environment, sustainable development,

regulations

Introduction

The right to a healthy environment that is ecologically balanced constitutes a natural

right, of the same importance as the right to property, and in close connection with the latter.

Being one of the fundamental human rights, the right to a healthy environment that is

ecologically balanced is characterised by a special dynamics regarding its acknowledgement and

legal guarantee.

Initially being internationally proclaimed by the Declaration in Stockholm, from the year

1972, this right is constitutionally and legally consecrated on state level. It stands for human

liability for environment, especially conjugated with its correlative right to a healthy environment

that is ecologically balanced, in case the ecological issues are mainly generated by the socio-

human impact upon the surrounding nature.

General conditions regarding environment factor protection in human settlements

The general principles, action framework and objectives of human settlements protection

were established at the Conference in Vancouver from 1976. In the Declaration adopted it was

stated that in the conditions in which the majority of the population, especially underdeveloped

countries, is living in poor settlements conditions, if concrete measures are not taken at a national

and international level, the situation will degenerate due to: inequitable economic growth, unequal

social, economic and ecological conditions, increasing food and housing necessities and other