Background and Aim: Economic development is one of the goals of various countries, the efforts to achieve it have generally been associated with environmental destruction. This has faced a fundamental challenge to the right to a healthy environment as one of the environmental rights. The purpose of this article is to examine this important issue, from the point of view of jurisprudence and law, how is economic development affected by the recognition of the right to a healthy environment? In other words, what effect does the right to a healthy environment have on economic development?
Materials and methods: This article is descriptive and analytical. The materials and data are also qualitative and data collection has been used.
Ethical considerations: In the present paper, the originality of the text, honesty and trustworthiness are respected.
Results: The findings indicate that the right to a healthy environment is accepted in jurisprudence and law. The right to a healthy environment has led to the formation of the concept and, more precisely, a theory called sustainable development, according to which, economic development must be carried out along with environmental issues and protection of environmental elements.
Conclusion: In Iranian law, sustainable development has been emphasized as a result of the impact of the right to a healthy environment on economic development; A matter that has been emphasized in jurisprudence in the shadow of simultaneous attention to the use of nature and at the same time its protection.