Principio 11 de la Declaración de Río 1992: su aplicación contra la deforestación en la Amazonía colombiana

Abstract

The Rio declaration set out 27 principles, including principle 11, which says: “States must enact effective laws on the environment. Standards, management objectives and environmental priorities should reflect the environmental and development context to which they apply. The standards applied by some countries may be inadequate and represent an unjustified social and economic cost for other countries, particularly developing countries”. In Colombia, the protection of the environment was embodied in different articles of the Political Constitution of 1991. Among them, article 79 stands out, which established that "everyone has the right to enjoy a healthy environment" and that “it is the duty of the State to protect the diversity and integrity of the environment”; and article 80, which established that “the State will plan the management and use of natural resources, to guarantee their sustainable development, their conservation, restoration or replacement” (Colombia, 1991). Due to the above, the research seeks to evaluate the policies, norms and other instruments established for the care of the management of natural resources and especially against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon to identify the structural, organic, legislative and existing social networks in order to carry out a sustainable management of forest resources and avoid the high rates of deforestation that have been occurring mainly in the departments of Caquetá, Guaviare, Meta, Putumayo and Amazonia.