Article 50 of the Political Constitution of Costa Rica establishes that the State must ensure the greatest well-being for all the inhabitants of the country, guaranteeing the right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment, in respect of the right to the protection of human health derived from the right to life; the primary objective of the use and protection of the environment being, therefore, to obtain a development and evolution favorable to human beings in harmony with it, in which environmental quality and economic means are the fundamental parameters for people.
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