The Construction Necessity and Functional Implementation of Informal Environmental Regulations
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: 环境法中公众参与缺少“赋能”范式是一个老生常谈的问题，“软条款–硬效力”的思路需要寻求“法外空间”的具体演绎方法。非正式环境规制作为规制谱系中的自我、自愿规制，往往因不足备的工具理性而被忽视，但其内蕴的价值理性能有力地将社会公众导向“公共善”的整体本位法律观，在环境损害前端预防、中端监管、后端治理与末端跟踪上全面弥合环境行政管理体制。在传统环境管理体制执法偏差、执法与司法错位、生态损害赔偿诉讼适格主体模糊以及跨区域环境管理体制管理效能有待提升的情境下，“软法化”非正式环境规制推进管理模式转型。借助社科理论构筑非正式环境规制规范，呼应CCER、碳普惠等全国层面的自愿性环境规制，其软法化、规范化促进社会自治与管理体制外部监管并济，以期“政社协同”。The lack of an “empowering” paradigm for public participation in environmental law is a long-standing issue, and the approach of “soft clause hard effect” requires seeking specific deductive methods for “extralegal space”. Informal environmental regulation, as a self and voluntary regulation in the regulatory spectrum, is often overlooked due to insufficient instrumental rationality. However, its inherent value rationality can effectively guide the public towards a holistic legal view of “public good”, and comprehensively bridge the gap between environmental administrative management system and front-end prevention, mid-level regulation, back-end governance, and back-end tracking of environmental damage. In the context of the traditional environmental management system’s deviation in law enforcement, the mismatch between law enforcement and justice, the ambiguity of the eligible subjects for ecological damage compensation litigation, and the new challenges brought by the cross regional environmental management system’s implementation efficiency, the transformation of the “soft legal” informal environmental regulation promotes the management model. By utilizing social science theory to construct informal environmental regulatory norms and echoing voluntary environmental regulations at the national level such as CCER and carbon inclusiveness, the process of soft law and standardization promotes social autonomy and external supervision of the management system, with the expectation of achieving “government-society collaboration”.
Source: Dispute Settlement
Author: 圆 方
Institution: Shanghai University of Political Science and Law
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411570616