Civil liability and individual environmental damage in the Brumadinho disaster

Abstract

Civil liability in the environmental matters has plural effects and interconnections. The articulation of its implications does not allow, the articulation require a continuous mode of dialogues between several legal branches. Environmental law and Civil law are in interconnection when it is about individual environmental damage. In the environmental disaster situations, as Brumadinho’s disaster, the  consequences reach special relevance in the reason of definition of legal responsibility framework. The environmental goods are not linked to private or public ownership. However, legal framework of ecologic goods projects effects in reparation of individual damage linked to environmental damage, specially, in the disaster situations. This paper proposes makes articulation between environmental law and civil law in order to identify applicable legal standards to civil liability situations. In order to get it, the approach is based in methodology of the dialogue of sources. As from this articulation, the paper supports the conclusion of a direct influence in the reparation system of individual environmental damage, including limitation period to claim.