Research On The Perfection Of Government Liability System For Environmental Damage

Nowadays, with the development of the national economy, the environmental damage becomes particularly serious. Therefore, the legal governance of the environmental damage, especially the government liability, has been an important issue in the procedure of legal construction. Due to the lack of specific environmental damage accountability system, the governance of China’s environmental damage is an impasse. In order to make the environment damage well-managed, it’s necessary to improve the established environmental damage accountability system of environmental damage in China.This paper is divided into five parts.The first part introduces the concepts concerning environmental damage. At first, the concept of environmental damage is defined. Then, the characteristics of the environmental damage and the difference among environmental damage, environmental pollution and environmental infringement are clearly described. In addition, this part also includes the discussion of the environmental damage liability from the perspective of jurisprudence. Based on the first part, it is possible to analyze the government accountability system of environmental damage in the following parts.The second part is mainly about current government accountability system regarding environmental damage in China and also discusses the existing problems of the accountability system. This part aims to figure out the defects of damage in government environmental accountability system of environmental our country.The third part focuses on several extraterritorial environmental accountability systems of environmental damage. In this part, some particular countries and regions are selected. Legislation on the government accountability system of environmental damage of these countries and regions are introduced to attain helpful inspiration for the modification of China’s government accountability system.The fourth part lays emphasis on the suggestions which will improve China’s government accountability system of environmental damage. Through comparison and analysis mentioned above, this part puts forward diverse advice which can be adopted to overcome the existing problems. These measures not only involve provision of law, but also contain legal practice.The fifth part is the conclusion, which summarizes the main content of this paper and presents the future research plan.