环境正义:环境法学的范式转移

正义是弥久常新的议题,随着"环境时代"的到来,正义也被赋予新的含义,环境正义成为环境时代的正义范式。环境是社会建构的,环境问题的真正根源是社会关系和社会结构的非正义性。环境正义主张所有地区与人群包括弱势群体有免于遭受环境损害的自由,有对干净的土地、空气、水和其他自然环境平等享用的权利,经由社会资源的公平分配达致可持续发展以提升民众的福祉。因此,环境法学研究应当走出"全称命题"与"重自然轻人类"的传统路径,其范式应当转移到环境正义议题。

On Environmental Justice:the Paradigm Shift of Environmental Laws

Justice is a constant new topic. As the “environmental era” comes, justice has been given new meanings and environmental justice is becoming the paradigm ronment is socially constructed, the essential cause of of justice in environmental era. Since the envi- environmental problems lies in the injustice of social re- lations and social structures. Environmental justice advocates the freedom to be free from suffering environmen- tal damages in all areas and population including vulnerable groups; to enjoy equal rights to clean land, air, water and other natural environments; and to improve peopleg welfare through equitable distribution of social resources and sustainable development. Based on this concept, this paper explicates the logical transformation of justice and proposes that the research on environmental laws should shake off the traditional path of “universal proposition” and “emphasis on nature and contempt of human”. The paradigm should shift to environmen- tal justice and it is suggested to discuss the normative concerns of environmental justice.