In order to increase the exchanges of practical experience of handling the public nuisance disputes of officers among environmental agencies and related law enforcement agencies, to enhance the advocacy of relevant laws and regulations and their applications of legal public nuisance dispute resolution mechanisms, and to try to prevent the public nuisance disputes from happening, the main tasks and contents of this research project are as follow: I. This Project tries to explore and discuss the latest relevant mechanisms and contents of environmental liabilities in environmentally advanced countries. A. This Project tries to explore, discuss and analyze the latest development of applying strict liability principle to the compensation of environmental damages in environmentally advanced countries. B. This Project tries to explore, discuss and analyze the latest development of compulsory environmental liability insurance in environmentally advanced countries. C. This Project tries to explore and discuss the organizations, structures, sources and their effectiveness of relevant special environmental compensatory funds, both domestic and abroad. D. This Project tries to explore and discuss and draft the relevant environmental liability mechanisms and cooperating and assisting the relevant preparations of the draft statute. E. This Project tries to examine and provide recommendations on the public nuisance dispute mediation law and its relevant regulation and system. II. This Project tries to increase the exchanges of practical experience of handling the public nuisance disputes of officers among environmental agencies and related law enforcement agencies and to explore and discuss the relevant public nuisance dispute resolution mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness of public nuisance dispute mediation. A. This Project held a seminar on the review of environmental officials handling public nuisance disputes and petitions. B. This project held two symposiums on trial and prosecution practices of environmental disputes for judges and prosecutors. III. This Project tries to strengthen the advocacy of relevant laws and regulations and their applications of legal public nuisance dispute resolution mechanisms and to enhance the effectiveness of public nuisance mediation. IV. This Project invited scholars and experts to form a consulting team for environmental protection agreements to provide consultations for enterprises, local residents and local governments to facilitate their entering into environmental protection agreements and to cooperate with the environmental protection administration to assist the promotional activities of environmental protection agreements.

Public Nuisance Dispute Resolution、Environmental Damage、Environmental Accountability Mechanisms