Theoretical Analysis On The Environmental Protection System Construction In A Society

Though the environmental problem has been a long-standing one, it did not become a focus of attention until 1950s or 1960s. The problem was mainly addressed from the point of economics and ethics. The point of economics includes environmental resources study, environmental economics study and system economics study. The point of ethics includes anthropocentric, non-anthropocentric and sustainable development environmental ethics study. However, all the related documents indicate that the issue of environmental protection has been less addressed from the point of system construction, in particular the social system construction. Therefore, the present thesis, from the comprehensive perspective of building social system, researches the principles being followed when constructs social system for the purpose of protecting environment. This research offers meaningful references for the construction of environmental protection social system. It is of innovative value for the solution of environmental problems through system construction.The Introduction briefly recalls the detailed contents and varieties of schools of addressing environmental problem from the perspectives of economics and ethics. Beginning from the relationship between environmental problem and social system, the first chapter illustrates that environmental problem is actually a system problem. This system is to rectify human being's thinking mode, social behavior and economic activities. The present author holds that the solution of environmental problem should depend on the reconstruction of human being's social system. Thus, building an environment-friendly society of harmonious development between man and nature is either the starting point or the attaching point. The second chapter puts forward that the construction of environment-friendly society should follow such principles as history, humanism, development and system. The third, fourth and fifth chapters respectively discuss significance construction and legitimacy construction of environmental protection system, and the mode, characteristics, law and requirement of resources system construction. The sixth chapter researches the system arrangement of environmental protection, and gives the idea that building a clear environmental resource ownership system is the inherent requirement of environmental protection. The seventh chapter suggests two countermeasures of environmental protection. One is to construct an environmental autonomy society, which includes establishing a "humanism" environment system, forming an "environmental autonomy system" characterized by citizen's self-education and regulating the democratic social system construction for the "environmental autonomy". The other is to improve the environmental resource market, which includes optimizing market performance, innovating the management of environmental resource and increasing the investment to the environmental protection.