The Environmental Management Tools and Instruments of Aplication

Abstract

Environmental Management has made considerable progress in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades, particularly after the Rio de Janeiro Summit on Environment and Development. There is greater public awareness of the various environmental problems and there is greater understanding of the complex relationships existing between environment and development, which is reflected in expanding environmental agenda has gradually permeating towards different sectors of the s activity is economic s, social is political and sof the different countries of the region. Almost all countries have extensive Environmental Legislation and have established citizen rights and obligations, and in turn have defined the functions of the state and public bodies responsible for Environmental Matters, and Venezuela is no exception. With the creation of the Ministry of the Environment in 1976, they complement and comply with everything related to Environmental Legislation, which in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is very broad and of great importance for the conservation of natural resources. For the development of this article, it was first developed what is related to the conception of the environment and then with the development of the theme of Environmental management, its scope of application, environmental policy and a brief description of the tools and instruments of Environmental Management.