A Comparative Study on Public Participation in the Chinese-American Environmental Impact Assessment System

Abstract

Public participation is a basic principle of environmental law. In order to ensure the fairness and openness of environmental decision-making, it plays an extremely important role in the process of environmental impact judgment through the expression and communication of public opinions. The United States is the first country in the world to establish an EIA system. Many countries in the world have cited it and regard the environmental impact assessment system as an important system in the field of environmental protection. Public participation in environmental decision-making is the core content of the EIA system. Due to the problems of public participation in the current environmental impact assessment system in China, it is difficult to meet the needs of the public and the society, so it is of great significance to promote the improvement of the public participation mechanism for the implementation of the environmental impact assessment system. This paper analyzes and recommends the public participation system in the environmental impact assessment system between China and the United States through comparative research.