Green restorative justice approach in environmental issues to attain the sustainable development

Abstract

Environmental has been a global issue. The industry entities have damaged the ecosystem severely, so the right approach to solve this problem is necessary. This study aims to discuss on the prospects of green restorative justice as the settlement of environmental cases, especially in broken environments due to the industry company activities. This qualitative study used the exploratory method about the chance of green restorative justice to settle the problem between corporations and communities which were damaged in their living area. The findings showed that green restorative justice could be another way to solve the environmental issues because the non-trial process took less time and low cost. Following that, another finding was that implementing re-greening of the ecosystem by the guilty company could be faster and more beneficial for the community as long as the other stakeholders involved, such as the government and media guarding the cases. Furthermore, this study can be used as a future way to face the conflict between the corporation and the society where the environment is the victim, so that sustainable development can be attained.