In the last years, the interest in ecosystem services (ESs) as a decision-making tool for environmental policy has been growing. The ES paradigm has also impacted the judicial system and in some countries the common law tradition. Experiences and lessons learned from the ES litigation have been already documented. In the initial analysis, this article aims to identify key trends in ESs case law in Latin America—a leading region in environmental constitutionalism—by exploring the judicial decisions issued by high courts and subnational environmental courts that mention or incorporate the ES term. In the second level of analysis, we focused on the Colombian Constitutional Court landmark decision; the Arroyo Bruno judgment aimed to protect the rights to water, food security, and health of the Wayuú indigenous people. We argue this is a groundbreaking ruling in Latin America, given that for the first time, a Court uses the ES-based approach to protect the environmental rights of ethnic communities, incorporating ES concepts to the constitutional law sphere and integrating into the same conversation, interdisciplinary and intercultural knowledge.

在过去几年中，作为环境政策决策工具的生态系统服务 (ES) 的兴趣一直在增长。ES范式也影响了司法系统和一些国家的普通法传统。从 ES 诉讼中吸取的经验和教训已经记录在案。在初步分析中，本文旨在通过探讨高等法院和地方环境法院发布的提及或纳入 ES 术语的司法判决，确定拉丁美洲（环境宪政主义的主要地区）的 ES 判例法的主要趋势。在第二层分析中，我们关注哥伦比亚宪法法院具有里程碑意义的判决；Arroyo Bruno 判决旨在保护瓦尤土著人民的水权、粮食安全权和健康权。