Environmental LawWhat is Environmental Law? Environmental Law –
is a complex and interactive group of international treaties,
parliamentary statutes, conventions, regulations and common law
which seeks to regulate the relationship between human kind and
the natural world with the overarching aim of restricting the
harm done to the natural world by human activity. Environmental
law can be divided into the distinct areas of pollution -
control and removal, and resource management and conservation.
Laws relating to pollution are generally single environmental
resource specific, that is, they deal with water, or with air,
or soil, but not a combination. Similarly laws relating to
resource conservation and management deal with specific natural
resources such as forestation or mineral deposits. Environmental
Law is drawn from the universal principles of ecology,
conservation, stewardship, responsibility and sustainability.
Environmental Law has an international aspect as pollution is no
respecter of state borders.