LEUZINGER, Márcia Dieguez; VARELLA, Marcelo Dias. O meio ambiente na constituição federal e na legislação infraconstitucional: avanços ou retrocessos (1988 a 2014)?. NOMOS: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFC, Fortaleza, v.34, n.2, 2014, p.299-314.One of the achievements of the 1988 Brazil Constitution was granting constitutional status to the protection of the environment. More than a third of countries worldwide have amended their constitutions to protect the environment. Each country has modified its laws in light of its own peculiarities, thereby revealing its particular views on environment protection and conservation. The usage and protection of the environment is inconsistent throughout the world due to the divers...