The Precautionary Principle and its Judicial Application

Abstract

The precautionary principle is a structural element of environmental law directed to the prevention of serious or irreversible environmental damages, imposing preventive measures to those events in which there is no certainty about the negative effects caused to natural resources by the development of an activity. This work aims to analyze the theoretical and normative content of this principle and the existing difficulties in its application, especially in the field of popular actions (acciones populares) by the imposition of interim actions.