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On Ecological Damage Liability and Its Legal Approach

MEI Hong   

  1. (School of Law,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266100,Shandong China)
  • Online:2020-05-01 Published:2020-06-18

Abstract: The term "liability for environmental pollution and ecological damage" can be compatible with "tort liability for damage caused by environmental pollution and ecological destruction" and "liability for compensation for ecological damage".It lays the foundation of the basic civil law for the establishment and improvement of the environmental liability system in our country.The liability of ecological destruction has the nature of both public law and private law.Because of the particularity of the victimized object,the complexity of determining the responsibility,and the urgency and arduousness of undertaking the responsibility,it takes the liability of the nature of public law as the main content,and it is stipulated in the Civil Code with the help of the content of the "shell" of civil liability.It embodies the system innovation of Tort Liability in the Civil Code in the environmental era to accept the liability for ecological destruction.Its comprehensive legal approach also requires environmental law to establish preventive responsibility,regulatory responsibility and social responsibility for ecological destruction,so as to realize the connection and coordination between environmental law and civil law.

Key words: liability for ecological damage, tort liability for damage to others caused by ecological damage, liability for compensation for ecological damage

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