Improving Environmental Tort Liabilities in China——A View of Communication between Civil Law and Environmental Law

Coupled with the frequent occurrence of environmental pollution,and the extension of its affecting degree and scope,environmental pollution issue has become a prominent social problem in the course of rapid development of China′s economy.Corresponding responsibility problems are increasingly subjected to the common concern and attention of the circles of civil law and environmental law.However,there are different visual thresholds concerning the environmental pollution tort between the two circles.In China,what the legislation of the environmental pollution tort undertakes is the dual track system regarding the civil legislation and environmental legislation,reflecting to a certain degree the theoretical research results by the circles of civil law and environmental law.The communication between the two law circles has become an important guarantee for promoting the coordination and unitarity of the environmental pollution tort in China.Meanwhile,confronted with the dual challenge of the civil liability problem that the environment itself undergoes pollution or damage,and the problem concerning the new-type environmental risk tort liability,there should be more profound and extensive dialogue between the circles of environmental law and civil law to extend the environmental tort liability system in China.