Green Benches: What can the People's Republic of China Learn from Environment Courts of Other Countries?
Lin, Tun; Wang, Canfa; Chen, Yi; Camacho, Trisa; Lin, Fen | December 2009
Abstract
The rapid economic growth of the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the last 30 years has generated many environmental problems and a concomitant rise in the number of environmental disputes. Until 1989, legal cases arising from these disputes were usually heard in the People's courts of general jurisdiction. In that year, however, the development of the environment court system accelerated, leading to the creation of 11 such courts for pilot cases, a sign of the high priority the PRC has given to environmental protection over the past two decades.
This paper examines the effectiveness of environment courts in the PRC and elsewhere, so that the lessons learned can be applied in the PRC and in other developing countries. It also recommends ways to promote environmental justice in the PRC, given that the 11 environment courts are no longer enough to handle the rapidly increasing caseload throughout the country.
Citation
Lin, Tun; Wang, Canfa; Chen, Yi; Camacho, Trisa; Lin, Fen. 2009. Green Benches: What can the People's Republic of China Learn from Environment Courts of Other Countries?. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/200. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Print ISBN
978-971-561-860-1
Keywords
Work Environment
Regulatory Environments
Institutional Environment Assessment
Global Environment
Environmentally Sustainable Development
Environmentally Damaging Subsidies
Environmental Strategy
Environmental Sustainability
Environment and Pollution Prevention
Environmental Action Plans
Environmental Assessment
Environmental Cleanup
Environmental Compliance
Environmental Effects
Environmental Guidelines
Environmental Health Hazards
Municipal government
Alternative energy development
Geothermal Energy
Renewable Energy
Pollution Indexes
Green Revolution
Polluter Pays Principle
Decontamination
Environmental Statistics
Ecosystems
Ecology
Pollution Control
Coastal pollution
Coasts
Lakes
Rivers
Inland Water transport
International rivers
international lakes
Sewage management
Waste Disposal
Water pollutants
Public Law
Fishery Law
Marine Pollution
River Pollution
Industrial Pollution
Thermal Pollution
Thermal Pollution
Hydroelectric power
Energy technology
Alternative energy program
Alternative energy technology
Energy Sources
Air quality indexes
Environmental indexes
Sanitation
Green technology
Oil spills prevention
Water quality
Prevention of pollution
Water resources development
Water quality trading
Pollution
Experimental watershed areas
Lakes monitoring
Floodplains monitoring
Pollution measurement
Liability for water pollution damages
Tide pool ecology
Reef ecology
Ocean bottom ecology
Marine riparian ecology
Marine radioecology
Marine productivity
Marine microbial ecology
Marine habitats
Marine chemical ecology
Aquatic ecology
Water pollution
Renewable energy source
Natural resource
Hybrid power
Renewable energy resource
Conservation of natural resources
Green technology
Air pollution potential
Pollution control industry
Energy conservation
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