A responsabilidade civil do Estado por omissão a partir da tragédia de Mariana/MG

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the importance of state action in prevention the environmental disaster, and also its responsibility for reversing it. To this end, the civil and administrative liability of the State from the anthropological disaster in Mariana/MG. The work will be divided into three parts, being the first the constitutional approach to the environment from the perspective of Canotilho and Ingo Sarlet, and the construction of a new concept of human dignity. The second involves the legal delimitation on the responsibility of the State from the point of view of environmental, civil and administrative spheres, and also for its omission. The conclusion if will give a legal diagnosis of the dam failure, and consequent criticism on the modality of state accountability and its application by the courts superiors.