Environmental Issues in Honduras: Responses from the Right

Abstract

The overall environmental situation is extremely worrying and Honduras is not exception to this reality. Honduras has approved about 50 international treaties and over 100 secondary laws on environmental and natural resources, adding any number of regulations, which are presented as an appropriate legal scenario. However, there are some drawbacks: the amount and dispersion of laws, weak administrative and judicial framework, and professionals with little knowledge about environmental issues can be a formula for inefficiency, negating the positive impacts on the environment that is intended by this specialized legislation.

Environmentalist lawyers can make a difference, but it requires that the academic world assumes a commensurate role with the challenges of the new millennium, training professionals able to interpret environmental laws, adding a technical foundation to their legal training qualifications, because Environmental Law transcends the legal field.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/lrd.v35i0.1782

Revista de Derecho, Vol. 34, Nº 1, Año 2013: 27-49