结构性陷阱:中国环境法不能承受之重——兼议我国环境法的修改

Traps in Structure and the Unbearable Heaviness of Chinese Environmental Law: With a Discussion on the Amendment of Environmental Protection Act

目前我们正处在修改环境法的关键时刻,但将环境法作为单行法进行修改是具有局限性的,因为我国环境法律体系在实践中实施效果不佳的最根本的原因是中国环境法遭遇着能源结构、产业结构、区域结构、城乡结构和权力结构等结构性陷阱,由此产生的"以污染防治为中心"、"以沿海为中心"、"以城市为中心"和"以经济发展为中心"的环境立法特征进一步加剧了环境问题的严峻性。因此,环境立法视角的狭隘化是无法让环境法在实践中大有作为的。要突破环境法的发展困境,环境立法应适度法典化,将环境立法置于更为开阔的视域中去。

At a critical point of amending China's environmental protection act,we find it not enough to amendment this act only as an independent law.The enforcement of Chinese environmental law is hampered by the traps in such independent structures as energy consumption,industry,regions,town and country,and social power,which lead to the law making of a disconnected 'centering-on-so-and-so' type,thus worsening the situation.It is evident that parochialism in law making concerning environmental protection prevents the environmental act from achieving what it has been expected to achieve.To break through,the Chinese environmental law must be codified,and put into a wider perspective in its making.