从松花江水污染事件检视跨界污染损害责任制度

跨界污染对一国之周边相邻国家和区域乃至全球环境会造成严重危害,产生相应的国际法律责任。以此次松花江水污染事件为视角,凸现了现行立法对跨界污染损害责任制度存在的诸多缺欠和不足。本文提出:应科学界定跨界污染损害概念,导入严格责任,确立国家责任的特点、适用范围、主体和形式。完善相关的预防和赔偿机制是各国间处理跨界污染事件的有效途径,以期实现全球环境和谐可持续发展治理。     

Environmental liability and harmonization in the presence of transboundary effects and hidden assets

Within the context of transboundary disputes, this paper seeks to determine which liability concept, negligence or strict liability, performs better when assets are secure against foreign claims for transboundary damages. Our results indicate that, if assets are hidden from foreign claims, strict liability will not implement the socially optimal outcome, but neither will negligence. However, even though the socially optimal outcome is not always achieved, strict liability weakly dominates negligence. These results suggest that the harmonization of statues that deal with transboundary pollution should be based on strict liability not negligence. JEL classification K32 · Q5 Smith and Eckert both thank SSHRC of Canada for financial assistance. We thank two referees for valuable comments that greatly improved the paper and Matt Smith for his research assistance. All remaining errors are our responsibility.     

船舶碰撞造成油污损害民事赔偿责任的承担

本文总结了我国司法实践中在处理船舶碰撞油污损害赔偿方面存在的主要法律问题 ,并根据法理和有关法律规定对这些问题进行了较详细分析 ,最后在分析基础上提出解决这些的立法或司法建议案     

提起海洋和通海水域污染损害赔偿诉讼主体的几个层面

传统的诉权理论随着人类社会的飞速发展已日渐显露出缺陷与不足 ,在环境与资源保护方面 ,这一问题尤为突出。海洋污染已是人类共同面临的公害 ,却因诉讼主体资格问题在诉权理论与诉讼实践上的链接缺失 ,使环境污染得不到及时有效的司法干预和救济。对该类纠纷 ,应对“利害关系”作扩大化解释和对起诉资格进行放宽。作为提起海洋和通海水域损害赔偿纠纷的诉讼主体 ,本文认为应分三个层面 ,一是与污染损害事实有直接利害关系的公民、法人和其他组织 ;二是具有海洋管理权能的行政部门 ;三是检察机关代表国家提起环境侵权公益公诉。这三个层面共同担当起缺失的守护神——海洋环境污染损害赔偿诉讼的原告主体。     

我国污染环境犯罪增设危险犯的必要性

随着我国经济社会的迅猛发展,工业化进程的加快,环境污染问题凸显,各地污染环境犯罪的案例层出不穷、数量大幅攀升.现行立法虽有进步,但其处罚的基本形态为实害犯、行为犯.这样的立法设置对于惩治污染环境犯罪的司法实践来说存在滞后性.为了更好地遏制并打击污染环境犯罪行为,应当在污染环境犯罪中增设危险犯.     

欧洲新水政策及其对完善我国水污染防治法的启示

欧盟新水政策建立了相互独立的水管理系统,把所有地表水都应纳入"良好生态状况"和"良好化学状况"的一般性保护中,注意运用综合方法、水价杠杆、广泛的公众参与等保护水环境.我国水污染防治法在立法目的、公众参与、水环境管理体制等方面可以借鉴欧盟新水政策的经验加以完善.     

浅议不可量物侵害

不可量物侵害是民法上的一个重要概念,我国《物权法》首次规定了这一制度.文章研究了不可量物侵害的性质和各国的立法模式,评价了我国《物权法》相关规定的优缺点,并探究了容忍义务的理论基础,最后阐明了不可量物侵害与环境污染之间的关系.     

Environmental Stressors and Food Security in China

This article considers the immediate forces influencing China’s food system and food security. By immediate is meant events of the reform period, from the late 1970s to 2008. It begins by asking the question that has preoccupied specialists since the publication of Lester Brown’s Who Will Feed China? in 1995: How much arable land does China have? Is that land area sufficient to insure grain sufficiency? To insure food security? The article focuses on the human pressures on the food production environment, and then treats the effects of socioeconomic change: land, air, and water degradation. The core of the article examines six responses of the state to both perceived and actual environmental stressors: policy restricting arable land conversion, China’s one-child policy, investment in irrigation systems, the South–North Water Diversion Project, large-scale afforestation and reforestation campaigns, and the program to convert marginal agricultural lands to forests and grasslands.     

Climate Change Policy Implementation: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Why would countries invest resources to protect the global atmosphere, a global common‐pool resource? After all, this is an open‐access resource with no restrictions on appropriating its benefits. Furthermore, why would they do so under the aegis of a weak global regime (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC) that has virtually no provisions for sanctioning noncompliance and when the largest contributor to the problem is not participating in the regime? This article examines why a number of countries have implemented the UNFCCC. I hypothesize that countries implement UNFCCC because they corner domestic environmental benefits, namely reduction in local pollution. In my empirical analysis of 127 countries, employing an ordinal logistic regression model, I find that local air pollution is associated with higher levels of implementation of the UNFCCC. Thus, I conclude that the incentives to implement a relatively weak global regime can be found in the domestic political economy.     

空间碎片现状的国际法思考

空间碎片是指位于地球轨道上的非功能性人造物体,近年来其对人类的外空活动构成重大威胁。目前,关于空间碎片的立法尚不完善。文章对空间碎片问题的现状、涉及空间碎片致害的国际责任问题和空间碎片造成的空间环境污染问题的现行法律规定进行了探析,认为有必要明确空间碎片的概念界定,并从现行国际条约的局限性入手,对空间碎片作出系统的法律规制。