ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some aspects of Human Rights character and its applicability, and shows the expansion of the UN’s role concerning environmental issues and the relationship between environmental preservation and the dignity guarantee. The link between environmental governance and vulnerability analysis mechanisms and neoliberal values has interfered both in the effectiveness of environmental programs and in the real measurement of the problems, hampering the formulation of concrete alternatives to deal with the urgency imposed by the environmental collapse. Since the 1960s, environmental concerns among scientists, politicians, and civil society have intensified. Equally, the international community added to the individual’s construction as an international subject of rights, guaranteeing and protecting human dignity. The new Constitution of Ecuador was the first biocentric document to recognize the rights of nature, which expresses the seek for another possible common goods valuation.
