TY - JOUR AU - Muñoz, Luz AU - Moya, David PY - 2017/10/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - NGOs environmental legal mobilization and their access to the Spanish Supreme Court JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 9 IS - 3 SE - Thematic Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/942 SP - 308-332 AB - Environmental NGOs in Spain are well known policy actors. Since the nineties some of them have been invited to participate in governmental committees and/or to provide expertise to Parliamentary committees. They have also an important role in mobilizing public opinion to defend and protect the environment. We know less though about how do they intervene in the judicial arena. In the framework of a growing role of the Courts in the field of environmental governance, the goal of this paper is to analyze to what extent Spanish NGOs resorted to the judicial arena, specifically the Supreme Court, to enforce international and European higher standards of environmental protection and advocated against wrong or inadequate praxis in the implementation of environmental regulations. Several non-judicial factors seem to have strengthened that trend in Spain: increasing environmental national and European regulation as well as the NGOs organizational capacity to make judicial claims in line with their policy preferences. <br /><br /> Desde la d&eacute;cada de los noventa, las ONG medioambientales de Espa&ntilde;a participan en comit&eacute;s gubernamentales y/o como expertas en los comit&eacute;s parlamentarios; adem&aacute;s de tener un papel importante en la movilizaci&oacute;n de la opini&oacute;n p&uacute;blica. En cambio, sabemos menos sobre hasta qu&eacute; punto recurren a la arena judicial. En el contexto de un creciente de papel de los tribunales en el campo de la gobernanza ambiental, el objetivo de este documento es analizar en qu&eacute; medida las ONG espa&ntilde;olas inician litigios, espec&iacute;ficamente en el Tribunal Supremo, para exigir el cumplimiento de los est&aacute;ndares internacionales y europeos de protecci&oacute;n del medio ambiente o en contra de malas praxis. Varios factores no judiciales parecen haber reforzado esa tendencia en Espa&ntilde;a: el aumento de la regulaci&oacute;n ambiental nacional y europea, as&iacute; como la capacidad organizativa de las ONG para iniciar litigios en l&iacute;nea con su posici&oacute;n sobre una pol&iacute;tica determinada.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1061" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1061</a> ER -