Some fundamentals and convergences of the Roman administrative experience on the environment, natural resources and res publicae

Abstract

This contribution will focus, in summary form, on a short list of administrative provisions that, as a direct or indirect reflection effect, could have some convergence with what is now called the Environment and the protection of natural resources. We will talk, among other aspects, of the pollution in its different aspects, of the city in general, acoustic and saturnine. In relation to the field, the problems of the deforestation, the clearing of the forests and the mining. Water pollution, springs of running water, public springs in the city of Rome, etc. Also, in a somewhat more particularized way, but in a summarized way, we will analyze a set of legal reflections typical of Roman administrative experience, and the fundamental criteria in relation to the recognition of the social function of the res publicae and the corresponding interdictal tutelage And jurisprudence on public places, especially if we think about the relation, convergencies, coexistence or coherence, that they can assume with respect to the Environment.