Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico
This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court —Consejo de Estado— over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state...
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ir-10336-219692020-05-13T19:48:39Z Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico Collective litigation of environmental rights in Colombia : An empirical study Collective litigation of environmental rights in Colombia : An empirical study; Vallejo-Piedrahíta, Catalina Páez-Murcia, Ángela-María Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo Acciones populares Medio ambiente Consejo de Estado Incentivo económico Grupos sociales Economía de la tierra Class actions Environmental litigation Highest administrative court (Consejo de Estado) Economic incentive This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court —Consejo de Estado— over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-the art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs’ success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation. This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court-Consejo de Estado- over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-The art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia's highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: Types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs' success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation. 2017 2020-05-12T03:15:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 0041-9060 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/21969 https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.vj134.maap spa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf |
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Acciones populares Medio ambiente Consejo de Estado Incentivo económico Grupos sociales Economía de la tierra Class actions Environmental litigation Highest administrative court (Consejo de Estado) Economic incentive |
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Acciones populares Medio ambiente Consejo de Estado Incentivo económico Grupos sociales Economía de la tierra Class actions Environmental litigation Highest administrative court (Consejo de Estado) Economic incentive Vallejo-Piedrahíta, Catalina Páez-Murcia, Ángela-María Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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This paper presents the results of an empirical study that systematized environmental judicial opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court —Consejo de Estado— over a 17-year period (1998-2015). Thanks to a research grant, the authors and a team of coders systematized, using state-of-the art content analysis methodologies, more than 250 opinions handed down by Colombia’s highest administrative Court. The results presented in this paper show the most important trends of collective environmental litigation in Colombia: types of plaintiffs and defendants; type of environmental resources involved in the case; plaintiffs’ success rates; most litigious regions and cities; overall effects of economic incentives on the type of litigation, among several other subjects. This paper concludes that collective environmental litigation has been instrumental to protect environmental resources in Colombia, one the most biodiverse countries in the world. Finally, the paper concludes that the elimination in 2011 of the economic incentive in favor of litigants did not favor public interest litigation. |
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Vallejo-Piedrahíta, Catalina Páez-Murcia, Ángela-María Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo |
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Vallejo-Piedrahíta, Catalina Páez-Murcia, Ángela-María Lamprea-Montealegre, Everaldo |
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Vallejo-Piedrahíta, Catalina |
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Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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Medio ambiente y acciones populares en Colombia : Un estudio empírico |
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medio ambiente y acciones populares en colombia : un estudio empírico |
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https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/21969 https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.vj134.maap |
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