State intervention on the economic domain through extrafiscality in support of environmental safety

Abstract

The traditional concept of security threats involved in protecting the rule gave way to a security that aims at protecting the individual, bringing a human focus, who cares about human rights and sustainability. In 1994, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its annual report defined the concept of human security and identified as one of the dimensions of security, environamental securuty. Environmental security is focused on the protection and preservation of environmental damage arising from rapid population growth, industrialization, intensive production that overwhelms the land, air pollution, water shortages, salinization, desertification and global warming. In the Brazilian legal system has, in the constitutional level, the size of positivised Environmental Safety as noted by reading the articles 170, VI, 186, I and II and 225. Thus, it has constitutional authorization for governments to do their part as allowing this form of human security. Possible initiatives are the environmental tax policies directed at economic activities, through incentives, giving effectiveness to constitutional provision of Article 170, IV of the Constitution.