Punitive Damages for Environmental Public Welfare: An Empirical StudyofLegal Attributes and Attribution

Abstract

As an important legal mechanism of local social governance, punitive damages for environmental public welfare can have a certain deterrent effect on regional environmental damage, so as to improve the social governance environment and protect regional public interests. In the case of increasingly serious environmental problems, the difficulty of local environmental governance is increasing, and local governments and legal circles have discussed the issue of regional punitive damages to promote the improvement of the regional social governance environment. On this basis, this paper puts forward several hypotheses. the regional attribution of punitive damages for environmental public welfare, and the relationship between the amount and regional environmental restoration; the implementer of regional punitive damages, the relationship between legal regional limitation and regional environmental protection; The impact of the improvement of the regional social governance system and the soundness of the law on the effect of punitive damages, as well as the relationship between the participation rate of governments at all levels and the fairness of the whole society. The results show that whether local governments have an impact on public welfare disposal, as well as regional administrative penalties and environmental damage compensation, have an impact on environmental public welfare punitive damages, and the relationship between regional environmental restoration and governance deterrence. The results show that there is a positive correlation between public welfare punishment and departmental collaboration on environmental restoration, which is helpful to improve the credibility of environmental governance and play a deterrent role in law. Regional environmental public interest punishment has obvious regional autonomy, but it needs to be positively correlated with the two under the legal framework of the Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China. There is a significant positive correlation between punitive damages for ecological and environmental welfare, social governance, environment, and public cognition, and the two promote each other. In general, punitive damages for environmental public welfare should be in accordance with national laws, combined with regional governance, and give full play to the deterrent effect of the law to provide support for regional environmental protection.