The Ethical Dimensions Of Modern Environmental Law

With a view of the present state of environment management in China in recent years, we can see the rapid growth of legislation of environmental laws. However, it hasn't obviously improved the environmental condition in China. Some scholars claim that it is because the units of legislation, law enforcement and judicature haven't well collaborated but the author has different idea. We believes that law can not exist isolatedly and should be supported by ethics and other social norms. It is regrettable that the development of environment law in China has long been cut of from ethics. As we know ethics is saturated into every filed of human activities, including law, hence the environment law can not and should not be separated form the support of ethics. This is the main idea of this thesis.The contents of the thesis in introduced as follows: the introduction deal with the importance of biological civilization to human beings and the chief means to maintain it——that is the inner relationship between law and ethics. Chapter one discusses the ethical basis of modern environment law, that is, to study the inner relationship between the environment law and ethics from the aspects of hypothesis, substance and causes. Chapter two elaborates the ethics of the idea of modern environment law. It elaborates emphatically the value idea of traditional law such as order, justice, security and profits from the ethical perspective, especially environmental ethical perspective. Chapter three explains the ethics of the principles of modern environmental law. It intends to study to coordinate, risk prevention, public participation, obligation and biological compensation in the ethical sense of modern environment law. Chapter four"The governing by modern environmental law in the perspective of ethics", as the conclusion of the thesis, shifts its...