The Right to a Safe Environment and the Quality of Life

摘要

With the development in human rights in the world today, the inclusion of a safe environment has been fully adopted with the third generation of these rights. The evolution of this happened through several international conventions. The environmental interest focuses on protection of natural zones and biological diversity. Also, addressing desertification and Ozone’s protection. This can be seen also in the Algerian law which sets in Article no 68 that ?all citizens have the right in safe environment”. The welfare that humans aim to live in and maintain is related to the level and quality of their environment, therefore each change in weather influences sustainability of immutable natural variables which surrounds us as humans. This research aims to answer the following question: does the implementation of environmental legislations help to develop the quality in life. Therefore, this paper aims to study the progress in environmental legislations and its relation to economic development and quality of life. The paper follows a descriptive method in order to explore these relations.