On Ecological Damage Compensation Responsibilities in China

Abstract

Ecological damage compensation responsibilities are a civil responsibility mixed with public law factor to deal with. Ecological damage emerging in the environmental crisis age. To perfect Chinese law of ecological damage compensation responsibilities, we should give priority to ecological benefit protection, adopt non-fault imputability, and identify the responsibility with the elements of conduct harmful to the environment, the fact of ecological damage as well as the causation between the conduct and the fact of ecological damage. China should be perfect environmental citizen suit law, set up relevant systems such as environmental reliability insurance system, environmental protection fund system and ecological damage evaluation system, so as to offer statutory guarantee for the construction of ecological civilization society.