Prof. Dr. Eckard Rehbinder
Prof. Dr. Eckard Rehbinder
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt – Research Center for Environmental Law
Formerly Chair of the German Advisory Council on Environment
Secretary General of the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation
Rehbinder@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
Research Focus
General environmental law
Economic and soft instruments
Environmental liability;
Regulation of toxic substances
Conservation of nature law and agriculture
Selected Publications
Environmental Protection Policy. In: M. Cappelletti, M.Seccombe, J. Weiler (eds)., Integration Through Law. Europe and the American Federal Experience.Vol. 2. Berlin, New York 1985 (together with R. Stewart)
Environmental Agreements - a New Instrument of Environmental Policy, Envt'l Pol. & Law 1997, 258-269
Defining Environmental Goals - Reason, Limits and Implementation Instruments, in: R. Dolzer and J. Thesing (eds.), Protecting Our Environment (2000), pp. 375-421
Legal Protection of Environmental Rights: The Role and Experience of the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation, Environmental Policy and Law 2001, 282-293 (together with Demetrio Loperena)
Low Dose Exposures in the Environment. Dose-Effect Relations and Risk Evaluation, 2004 (together with C. Streffer u.a.)
Congress-Abstract
環境保護における配分的正義に関する法的側面
配分的正義に関する多様な法的問題が、環境政策によって提起されている。環境の質の地理的社会的配分の問題は、ドイツにおいては、今日まで重要視されてこなかった。環境法や開発計画法、あるいは一般法原理においては、実証的調査研究の後に、地理的な環境正義の確立に寄与する分析がなされている。さらに、平等と正義との関係や、政策決定過程における環境正義の今日的意味が議論されている。環境規制の利益とコストの配分に関して、ドイツ憲法は、高度に発展した評価基準のシステムを有している。世代間の公正は、「持続可能性条項」を通じて、憲法や環境法、開発計画法に記されている。しかしながら、これは、依然シンボリックなものにすぎない。
Legal Aspects of Distributional Justice in Protecting the Environment
Environmental policy raises various legal questions of distributional justice. The geographical (and social) distribution of environmental quality has been neglected in Germany. After a survey of empirical research environmental and planning laws and general principles are analysed as to their contribution to achieving geographical environmental justice. Moreover, the relationship between equality and justice and the relevance of environmental justice in the decision-making process are discussed. As to the distribution of benefits and costs of environmental regulation German constitutional law possesses a developed system of evaluation criteria. Intergenerational justice has entered into the Constitution and numerous environmental and planning laws through “sustainability clauses”, although this still remains somewhat symbolic.