Environmental Conflict And Its Practical Approaches On The Vision Of Environmental Ethics

With the rapid developing of productive forces, technology and economy, the fast expanding of human population, the acceleration of urbanization and industrialization since 20th century, the ability, scale and extent of human to exploit natural resource have been developed greatly, impacts that human activities imposed on ecological system are getting approach to the maxim environmental capacity. The obvious result is the unbalance of ecological system which would endanger people's living situation, self development, happiness and benefits. A scholar said: the civilization that made by man power defected human, eventually being sent to the grave by this civilization.The exacerbate conflicts between human civilization and nature which caused by environmental pollution and ecological degradation are not only natural issues, but also problems of economy, society, politics, technology and culture values. Environmental conflict and its derivate negative impacts have been a major social issue. This issue reflects the conflicts between people themselves and nature, in essence these are value conflicts. This paper based on the standpoint of environmental ethics, analyzed the phenomenon of environmental conflict. Except preface and conclusion, this paper includes three sections:First section: Introduced the concepts of conflict and environmental conflict, different environmental conflict phenomenon and the impacts those conflicts posed on nature, human and society. Second section: Analyzed the reason of environmental conflict via three viewpoints of value conflict, benefit conflict and technology abuse.Third section: Through the analysis of basic environmental conflict theory, discussed four value principles which addressed to solve environmental conflict, these principles are ecological security principle, environmental justice principle, coordination principle and public participation principle. In the end of this thesis proposed the concrete and practical approaches for solving environmental conflict, which comprised by: improving the arbitrational mechanism of environment and encouraging the multi-participation, building up the continued and effective ecological compensation, through education and guidance, making the public form the environmental value of sustainable development.