Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Environmental law has been established as a tool that allows the regulation of the dynamics between the environment and human beings in order to guarantee the conservation of natural resources; The above arises from the formation of different environmental crimes. In this sense, specifically the environmental crime of ecocide has been conceptualized in the midst of multiple subjective positions that have denied its inclusion in the scope of criminal law. The present study analyzes the jurisprudence applied in the case of ecocide perpetrated by Ecopetrol in its Lizama 158 well that took place in 2022. The aforementioned analysis is carried out in the contextual framework of the legislation related to ecocide and allows determining the effectiveness of the Colombian legal system in the case; in addition to examining the technical methodologies that allowed us to decide that it is the environmental crime of ecocide due to the magnitude of the negative environmental impacts suffered by the ecosystem and society of the La Fortuna – Barrancabermeja Santander village.
Author: Neisa-Ortiz, Paola Fernanda
Language: Spanish
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7158426507