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doi:10.59546/18290744-2026.7-9-15

Authors

KAREN TUMANYAN

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2026

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hy

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.592597+00:00

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The article offers a comparative legal study of the global trends in the constitutionalisation of environmental protection and an assessment of the constitutional model of the Republic of Armenia. Its purpose is to construct a global map of environmental constitutionalisation, to identify its principal models, historical stages and the influence of judicial practice, and on that basis to substantiate the directions for modernising Armenian constitutional law. The study relies on comparative, historical, doctrinal and statistical methods, as well as on constitutional mapping, which involves coding the normative content of a comprehensive sample of constitutional texts according to predefined criteria. The author proposes a four-dimensional conceptual model of environmental constitutionalisation — axiological, subjective-rights, obligational and institutional — a periodisation of the process into four waves (Stockholm, post-Rio, rights-based and ecocentric, and climate), and a typology of seven constitutional models: state objective, fundamental right, positive obligations of the state, citizens’ environmental duties, protection of future generations, rights of nature, and the institutional model. More than three quarters of the world’s constitutions now contain environmental provisions, and over 110 states enshrine the right to a healthy environment. Particular attention is paid to judicial constitutionalisation — Neubauer, Urgenda, KlimaSeniorinnen, Held v. Montana and the landmark rulings of the Global South — which render constitutional environmental norms justiciable and develop the doctrine of legal representation of future generations. The article demonstrates that the current constitutional regulation of the Republic of Armenia corresponds to the classical European state-objective model (Article 12 of the Constitution) but does not reflect the contemporary rights-based and climate dimensions of constitutionalisation, not least because the right enshrined in Article 33.2 of the 2005 Constitution was not retained in 2015. Concrete reform proposals are formulated: the entrenchment of a fundamental right to a safe and healthy environment, of intergenerational justice, of procedural environmental guarantees, and of independent institutional oversight.

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W7220474436

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10.59546/18290744-2026.7-9-15

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