Environmental Coordinates for the legal protection of the urban environment.

The case of the NNO Axis of the La Plata.

Abstract

This article discusses a case pertaining to the Legal Clinic of Environmental Law of the FCJyS-UNLP, regarding an urban-environmental conflict on territorial ordering in the La Plata NNO Axis. The environmental legal opinion was in this case the legal tool used to supply a response to the problem. The fundamental aspects revolved around minimum budgets requirements for environmental protection, the evaluation of cumulative environmental impacts and environmental principles. In particular, the Principle of Non-Regression -which at the time of the ruling was not expressly enshrined in any regulation- yet emerged as the core and cardinal point of the solution, with conveyed important results in the protection of urban environment.