On The Protection Of The Interests Of Victims In Environmental Public Interest Litigation

With the rapid development of China’s economy and legal system, the environmental pollutionproblem has become increasingly serious. How to protect the environment and the interests ofvictims in environmental public interest litigation become hot topics in the academic circle andheaven the whole society. Plenty of problems still exist in the protection against the environmentalpollution victims. The legal protection is essentially passive caused by the imperfect legal system,absence of legal aid and so on, which are especially unfavorable for the legal protection of victims’rights. Thus, the framework and content of the legal construction should be amended.This paper consists of seven parts. The preface summarizes and evaluates the research status ofright protection of the victims in the environmental public interest litigation and points out theexpected objectives. The first section provides an overview of the connotation of the environmentalpublic interest litigation and substantiates on the three types of damages on the part of infringer,namely, personal right, property right and environmental right. The second part analyzes the statusquo and causes of the environmental public interest litigation and educes that it is necessary toestablish the right protection system for environmental victims. Through the introduction of thecharacteristics of environmental pollution and the inner spirit of the legal protection of thevulnerable groups in society, the third part indicates the necessity for the right protectionenvironmental interests. The fourth section introduces the experiences of major foreign countries onthe right protection of victims in environmental public interest litigation, which provides help andreference for t. The fifth part proposed that establishment of the system of protection on the rightprotection of victims in China. The fifth part proposes the establishment of the right protectionsystem of victims in China from five aspects, namely, perfection of the legal legislation,establishment of environmental damage accreditation bodies, the supervision of the EnvironmentalAssessment Agency, the establishment of non-governmental environmental protection organizationsand the perfection of legal aid system for environmental victims. The Conclusion highlighted thepurpose of the article.In this paper, various research methods such as comparative analysis, comprehensive analysisare utilized to analyze the current status and causes of right protection system of environmentalvictims. Through the comparison with major foreign countries and China’s actual situation, the thesis puts forward the idea of the establishment of a sound system on the right protection ofvictims in the environmental public interest litigation. In this paper, a three-dimensional network onthe right protection of environmental victims is built to protect the legal rights of environmentalvictims, which also contributes to the construction of harmonious, stable and sustainable society.