ABSTRACT

Environmental justice protection refers to the action that the judiciary who use the substantive law and procedural law to deal with various types of environmental disputes, to protect citizens’ environmental rights. Its common way is environmental litigation, there is a small amount of environmental disputes involving judicial mediation, settlement of judicial enforcement. Judicial protection of the environment is different from traditional civil, administrative and criminal judicial activities, which has its own characteristics: first, litigant of the role of litigation is diversified, which litigant status is different in “the official sues the people”, “people sue government officials” and “people sue people”. Second, the range of plaintiff qualification is extensive, which is including the public, NGO administrative authorities and People’s procuratorate. Third, the subject matter of the litigation is special, which is a new, cross-type subject matter of litigation, including environmental claims that has been infringed or violated by the proposed hazard.