Liability for violating the right to healthy environment by improper waste management Cover Image

Răspunderea pentru încălcarea dreptului la un mediu sănătos în cazul gestionării necorespunzătoare a deșeurilor
Liability for violating the right to healthy environment by improper waste management

Author(s): Daniel-Ştefan Paraschiv, Ramona Paraschiv
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Environmental and Energy policy, EU-Legislation
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: environment; waste; protection; degradation; sanctions;

Summary/Abstract: Biosphere preservation is necessary for maintaining human health, and at the same time for ensuring prosperity by increasing production of goods. These are ideals achievable only by building a new global economic, social and ecological order. In the field of liability for environmental damage, including improper waste management, a key role is played by the preventive means, civil or administrative liability, and in addition by the criminal law, with a predominantly repressive character and especially with an intervention on the realm of "done evil", playing a subsidiary role. Violation of the right to a healthy environment has an adverse effect on the conduct of life under suitable conditions so that in future international organizations and state institutions should have a stronger role in environmental protection by establishing harsh penalties for acts with long-standing or irreversible consequences, which could significantly affect human health or even life.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 28-40
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian