Abstract
The effectiveness of the right to a healthy environment depends primarily on the implementation of environmental policies, which involves the expenditure of public funds, which are scarce. Therefore, this article aims to present the main, from a doctrinal and legislative research, arguments favorable to the how technology, which is the basis of the ecological crisis, can be used as a tool of mitigation of reserve possible and hence to maximize the effectiveness of fundamental rights. Thus shall be treated, initially, the relationship of technology with the environmental crisis. After, it will be to examine how information and communication technologies have enabled the opening of new spaces for political participation and administrative transparency. Finally, it will be to demonstrate that the Internet is a facilitator of social control of public spending and so the application of the fundamental right to a healthy environment.
Keywords:
technology; environment; democracy; reserve of the possible; control of the public administration