Legal and social analysis of the rights of nature in Ecuador. Defense and guarantee of these

The recognition of the rights of nature implies that it has its own values, independent of the valuations that people award, that causes it to cease to be an object (Ghione & Lorieto, 2011) (Acosta & Martinez, 2011). The Ecuadorian Constitution makes the country the first of the world to assign that legal category (Simon Campaign, 2013) (Murcia, 2012). Despite this, the country has the worst relative environmental indicators in South America, and the measures tried to prevent or compensate for its effects, are insufficient (Ghione & Lorieto, 2011). The current Constitution establishes the duty of the State to guarantee a sustainable model of development, environmentally balanced and respectful of cultural diversity, which preserves biodiversity and natural regeneration of ecosystems, and must be one of the primary axes in terms of the generation of public policies (Navas, 2014). These as he points out (Noguera & Navas, 2016) can be manifested in mechanisms of direct, participatory or others in terms of the rights of nature. This proposal was born to disseminate and identify compliance with the rights of nature and access to justice in 7 communities of the province of Azuay, seeking the unrestricted defense of the natural resource of Azuay and generating an alternative and balance of the relationship between society, state and market in harmony with nature and that guarantee the fulfillment of these rights, which justify this investigation.