Research On Adjustment Legal System Of Environment Dispute In South Korea

Environmental disputes are products of environmental problems. Nowadays in China, with environmental problems getting increasingly serious, the number of environmental disputes has increased sharply. As the traditional settlement mechanism has defects, many environmental disputes cannot be effectively solved in time. It not only hinders development of environment management but also sharpens contradiction between the two parties and influences social peace badly. China has no comprehensive law on environmental dispute resolution. Compared with China, South Korea can deal with environmental disputes more rapidly, efficiently, equally and flexibly. This thesis plans to start from analyzing the environmental dispute resolution system of South Korea, discuss the specific handling methods of South Korea and propose practical suggestions on improvement of administrative settlement mechanism of environmental disputes of China according to current situation and existing problems with environmental dispute resolution in China.Chapter I, Introduction. This part introduces the research objectives and significance as well as research status in this respect in China and abroad and the research methodology. This thesis aims at finding out problems of environmental dispute resolution in China and proposing solutions through analyzing environmental dispute resolution methods of South Korea.Chapter II introduces environmental dispute resolution system of South Korea. The author investigated practices of environmental dispute resolution in South Korea. With regard to this aspect, South Korea performs well and is representative compared with other countries. It has rich experience and is quite referential. This part summarizes the concept of environmental dispute resolution system of South Korea and introduces representative practices and cases.Chapter III is the current situation of environmental dispute resolution system of China and the existing problems. The author analyzed problems during environmental disputes settlement and the reasons in detail.Chapter IV proposes suggestions for improvement. The fundamental problem is that China has no law on environmental dispute resolution. So, the priority should be legislation. Secondly, China should build a specialized committee just like South Korea. Lastly, China should learn from experience of South Korea in this respect in order to improve China’ s environmental dispute system.As there are more and more environmental disputes, while the environmental dispute resolution system is defective, the government must improve the system in order to provide powerful and efficient legal weapon for Chinese citizens.