Within the law, and in comparison with some other types of legislation, environmental law could be said to be one of the most specific since it refers to a relatively limited area of reality, although this does not mean that it is less important or that cannot be interconnected with other types of law. Environmental law is the one that will be in charge of establishing all the laws, regulations and controls that have as their final objective the conservation and preservation of the environment as it is considered the only space in which human beings can carry out their existence.
Environmental law is also one of the most recent since it arose in the last quarter of the 20th century due to the advance of the damage that humans caused voluntarily or involuntarily in the environment. As these damages grew and it was possible to establish through scientific work, that some of them were even irreversible, the need arose to organize a set of laws, regulations, norms and standards that controlled not only the actions of the human being as an individual if not also, and especially, the actions of companies, corporations and industries.
Environmental law may have among its prerogatives the development of systems of norms whose main objective is to care for or preserve areas, establish protected areas, develop control and mitigation plans for known damages, carry out and carry out information campaigns, etc.
Environmental law emerges as one of the most important elements when it comes to giving legality to what until not long ago appeared as an illusion or exaggeration of few groups of volunteers concerned about the environment. Today, environmental law is a recognized part of the bulk of law in general terms.
