New Horizons of Environmental Law

This book systematically covers the environmental law issues of China. It starts with the challenges to traditional law and the emergence of environmental law, introduces the basic issues of environmental law and calls for the restructuring of the law, proposes environmental rights and reviews the practice of environmental rights. Then, this book discusses international environmental law developments, the change of notions of Chinese environmental law and the restructuring of Chinese environmental regulatory tools. It points out the insufficiency of traditional private law and public law and proposes that innovation of private law and public law is needed to address environmental issues in China. It addresses issues of Chinese environmental law as well as issues of international environmental law. This book pays attention to the special issues of Chinese environmental governance. Unlike many books introducing foreign environmental legislation into China, this book focuses on Chinese issues, Chinese environmental issues, and Chinese environmental law issues. This focus on the special issues of Chinese environmental governance makes it more revealing the real situations of China. From this book, readers may understand the history of Chinese environmental law as well as the future of Chinese environmental law, blackletter law, living law, achievements and insufficiency.