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12 Frontiers L. China 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/frolch12 and id is 1 raw text is: FRONTIERS OF LAW IN CHINA VOL. 12 MARCH 2017 NO. 1 DOI 10.3868/s050-006-017-0001-2 FOCUS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EDITOR'S NOTE ZHUXiao* Environmental rights are considered to be a fundamental theory of environmental law. However, environmental rights are complex issues, and each environmental law scholar has different interpretations of environmental rights. In fact, the theory of environmental rights originated in the Western developed countries. In the 1960's and 1970's, with the emergence of environmental problems, Western countries have successively carried out a series of environmental movements, fighting for clean air, water, and a healthy environment. During this period, environmental scholars focused on the study of substantive environmental rights. However, after the 1980's, scholars began to focus on procedural environmental rights research based on environmental information disclosure. More and more procedural environmental rights are being discussed and scrutinized, such as rights to public participation and judicial relief To understand the reasons for this shift and the development of procedural environmental rights, three articles discuss this issue from different perspectives. Professor ZHU Xiao, from School of Law, Renmin University of China, explains reasons for changes of focus of environmental rights research in his article Development of Environmental Rights in China: Substantive Environmental Rights or Procedural Environmental Rights. Firstly, this article summarizes the development of environmental rights theory in China. Then, the author discusses the dilemma of substantive environmental rights research in Western countries and China respectively, and the reasons why scholars turn to the study of procedural environmental rights. Finally, the article summarizes the achievements of research and legislation of procedural environment rights in China, and makes a prospect of the future research direction of environmental rights in China. Professor Hans Petter Graver, from Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, authored (* A) Ph.D. in Enviromnental Law, School of Law, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China; Professor in Environmental Law, School of Law, Renmiin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. Contact: x.zhu)ruc.edu.cn

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