In order to reconcile environmental conflicts, there is a need to constantly pursue the following: improving the procedure of ensuring environmental equity and distribution system, strengthening environmental responsibility and the policy for protecti...
In order to reconcile environmental conflicts, there is a need to constantly pursue the following: improving the procedure of ensuring environmental equity and distribution system, strengthening environmental responsibility and the policy for protecting socioeconomically vulnerable group, reducing environmental gap between regions. For the conciliation of the environmental conflicts under the current law, there is a need to form the institutional basis such as a system or an institution that analyses and assures environmental equity between regions and income brackets. Especially, the core contents of the institutional basis that should be built in the area of environmental legislation are as follows: 1) Returning to the fundamental law on sustainable development for the actualization of sustainable development principle and reinforcing environmental, economical, and social equity, 2) connecting development plan and environment plan for strengthening the linkages between land use legislation and environmental legislation; and for this to be realized, a forward-looking change in government organization, 3) securing fairness in environmental benefit or burden such as environmental pollution and consideration for social minorities to strengthen the fairness in environmental area, 4) related to reinforcement of legal liability on environmental damages, strengthening liability of compensation and indemnification for environmental damage such as environmental pollution, and for damage on the environment itself such as ecosystem, etc., 5) securing effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment and actualizing Social Impact Assessment as a precautionary measures for environmental conflict, 6) introduction of specialized system for reconciling environmental conflict.