On the Environmental Public Interest Litigation

Abstract

With the development of economy,the environmental problem is becoming more and more serious.But the limitation of national administration and the defect of traditional legal system(Including substantive law and procedural law), make it impossible to offer an effective protection for the environmental public interest.Therefore it is very necessary to draw lessons from the western sounder public interest litigation patterns,and set up the environmental public interest litigation system with Chinese characteristics by innovating on the basis of traditional legal system.To construct the environmental public interest litigation system in our country,we should first found environmental right under the substantive law,then expand the plaintiff's qualification and the case range that can bring civil and administrative litigations,and take various kinds of rational and effective guarantee measures.