Brazilian Environmental Law: An Overlook

Abstract

The article aims to give an overlook on Brazilian law system in the environmental field. It will follow the logic going from the constitutional analysis to under legislation exposition. The main principles of Brazilian environmental law will be given with a short description of how they interconnected with the upper mentioned legislation and the entities’ activities of the National System of the Environment (Sisnama). The final subchapter will give a global view of the executive, deliberative and advisory organs that act on the preservation of a safe and healthy environment in Brazil.