Civil Liability for Environmental Damage:The Problem of Proof and Compensation
Keywords:
Environmental damage, Civil liability, Civil lawAbstract
Abstract: Civil liability resulting from environmental damage faces more than one problem related to the civil liability pillar, such as the lack of the element of error or the lack of a causal relationship between the element of error and the element of damage, the nature of the element of environmental damage, the difficulty of in-kind compensation, the disproportion of monetary compensation with the size of the environmental damage, or the absence of the legal basis on which the right of the victim to obtain compensation is built is a harmful act according to the rules of civil liability under the civil law makes the actor responsible for the damages and risks for that It has become necessary to hold the responsibility of the perpetrator and to compensate the injured person, regardless of the natural or legal person, with appropriate compensation.
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