Legal Research On Preventive Environmental Public Interest Litigation

Although the human beings have gained many means of production during the process of developing and utilizing the nature,they also bring huge risk and damage to the ecological environment and human survival.For a long time,the practice of environmental public interest litigation(EPIL)in China only aims at providing remedies afterwards for environmental damage.The prevention in advance has long been ignored.Environmental damages are often difficult to reverse or even completely irreversible.In order to realize the prevention of environmental problems in advance,implement the principle of prevention,protect the ecological environment and social public interests,the preventive environmental public interest litigation emerges correspondingly,and its role and value have been widely witnessed.As a new trend in EPIL,there is inadequacy of theoretical research on the preventive environmental public interest litigation.Also,its system construction is still at the initial stage.Therefore,the existing preventive EPIL cases have become the most valuable data for our research.By analyzing the existing preventive EPIL cases,this paper tries to sort out the current problems and difficulties in judicial practice and proposes targeted suggestions for the construction and improvement of preventive EPIL.