The right to the city and the rights of nature: an analysis of their relationship from the blue-green ordinance

Abstract

The central objective of this research is to illustrate the connection between the right to the city and the rights of nature, highlighting the blue-green ordinance as a means of managing, preventing, building and redressing these rights. The relationship between the right to the city and the rights of nature in its guarantee is decisive in the construction of equitable, resilient, sustainable and environmentally friendly urban spaces. This paper provides a conceptual and legal basis for the right to the city and the rights of nature, outlining their fundamental principles and their evolution in the urban context. It also addresses analyses of sustainable urban planning policies that emerge in the applicability of the principle of interdependence between the right to the city and the rights of nature focused on safeguarding and restoring both ecological balance and social justice in cities. Finally, we reflect on how the actions or omissions of the public entities that make up a local government in their management have an impact on the enjoyment or violation of these "city-nature" rights, and explain the importance of the role played by decentralised municipal autonomous governments in the effectiveness of the development of their competences, especially in the area of environmental management, in line with the content of the Constitutional Court's ruling No. 2167-21-EP/22 "Monjas River".