Law of natural resources applicable to climate change

Authors

  • José Luis Santivañez CATIE, Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
  • Fátima Baqueros-Ballón CATIE, Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
  • Juan Pablo Martinez-Dávila Colegio de Postgraduados. Campus Veracruz
  • José Fredy Cruz-Centeno Facultad Multidisciplinaria Paracentral Universidad de El Salvador
  • Pedro José Toruño Universidad Nacional de Nicaragua, León

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/ribcc.v2i1.5685

Keywords:

Mother Earth, Mechanisms set, Comprehensive Management, Subject, Mitigation and Adaptation

Abstract

Environment, Natural Resources and Biodiversity, are considered among the priorities for implementing management processes long term all countries, employed and used as flags of social, economic, cultural, economic and political demands. However units or ministries enjoy the lowest budget, they are not in the forefront of prioritizing the POA, no late reaction and few trained and hired specialized professionals. Bolivia has substantial rules with different names and a single focus: "Mechanisms of Regulation", which involves prevention systems under a precautionary principle, which can make possible, with imagination and will, immediate action. From the decade of the 70 in our country it will enact some legal instruments on environmental management: a) in 1975 which is considered the Wild Life, National Parks and Game and Fish to start an interesting process Management of Natural Resources (Law of Wildlife, National Parks, Fishing and Hunting: DL 12301, 14.03.1975); b) in 1980, a line is drawn to incorporate some safeguards mining activity, which did not give many results for its lack of consensus with the actors; c) between 1985 - 1989, to promote national productive sector precautele some agendas that water issues are developed, but again aimed at regulating the mining sector and the use of such a vital resource; d) between 91-92, since the commitments made by the country in the preparatory meetings for the Summit on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, is included on the agenda concerns environmental, thereby initiating a debate serious about the paradigm based on the development and conservation, giving rise formulating the Environmental Law (DS 1333, 27.4.1992); e) in 1996, after extensive research process, the Forest Law (DS 1700, 12/07/1996) is formulated in view of the forest land in the country with over 52 MM / ha of forests where the environmental context, conservation, ecosystem functions and high value attributes are important; f) from 1999 Bolivia faces the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources from a technical look with the National Climate Change Programme, which ends its action in 2014 based on the new policies of the country where the climate issue and the management of natural resources is a matter of foreign policy; g) 2010 Bolivia convenes and hosts the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Tiquipaya 2010) managing to reunite more than 30,000 representatives of governments, social organizations, nations and peoples; h) for the 2012 Law of Mother Earth (DS is passed, 300) and with it the guiding policy of living well with sovereignty, with a governing body such as the Plurinational Authority Mother Earth and political body that counteract the commodification of natural resources through: Joint Mechanism for Mitigation and Adaptation for Integral and Sustainable Management of Forests and Mother Earth.

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Author Biography

Pedro José Toruño, Universidad Nacional de Nicaragua, León

Profesor investigador

Published

2016-01-30

How to Cite

Santivañez, J. L., Baqueros-Ballón, F., Martinez-Dávila, J. P., Cruz-Centeno, J. F., & Toruño, P. J. (2016). Law of natural resources applicable to climate change. Ibero-American JournalL of Bioeconomy and Climate Change E-ISSN 2410-7980, 2(1), 72–96. https://doi.org/10.5377/ribcc.v2i1.5685

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