Public Participation in Environmental Protection: Ideals, Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Since the environment is a kind of public property, environmental protection requires public participation. In order to realize the ideals of public participation in environmental protection, we need to enhance the democratization of national administrative agencies, guarantee the civil environmental rights, balance the environmental interests of different groups in light of environmental justice, promote public environmental awareness and cultivate the self-governing spirit in environmental protection. As there are definitely many problems in the public participation of environmental protection, we need to strengthen education in environmental protection, promote public participation in environmental protection and provide support to the civil environmental organizations so as to realize public participation in environmental protection.