The evolution of environmental classification through the promulgation and reinterpretation of international texts: an analysis based on the reference of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration Alder Thiago Bastos

Abstract

This is a study of international documents that aims to validate the idea that the classification of the environment, based on the Stockholm Declaration (1972), consolidates the existence of a necessary division based on the survey of environmental protection niches that are justified for the specific defense of the peculiarities existing in the list outlined by each classification. However, at the time of the promulgation of the aforementioned document, it was found that it was born outdated by disregarding the existence, at that time, of other environments consolidated and protected by other international texts that reclassified the environment (cultural and work environments). Thus, the objective of this study is to demonstrate that the classification of the environment proposed by the Stockholm Declaration is not rigid and inflexible, allowing several other documents to be interpreted and incorporated to reclassify the categories of environmental protection through the hermeneutic technique that allows the connection of two or more international texts. Through deductive methodology, with bibliographical review, consolidated in theoretical references published in physical and digital media, it is demonstrated, through the results collected, that the reinterpretation of the Stockholm Declaration with other international documents gave rise to the classifications of the cultural and work environments. It was concluded, in the end, that the emergence of environmental categories will always be aligned with the specificities that justify the reinterpretation of the Stockholm Declaration without there being the need to promulgate documents that reclassify the environment in the original document under study.