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Development of Envo Law (Nasional & Global)
Development of Envo Law (Nasional & Global)
Environmental Law
legal concept
environmental concept
BASIC CONCEPT OF
ENVIRONMENT
1. Wholistic Understanding
ABIOTIC
BIOTIC CULTURE
1. POPULATION
2. POVERTY
3. POLLUTION
4. POLICY
Some Relevant Cases
Minamata Case (1921 – 1997)
• Neurologis:
• Weakness
• Lost of sight
• Brain damages
• Coma death
• 1959 public disclosure that the
sympthon is caused by toxification
on metilmercury (Hg) from waste
materials of Chisoo Co. Ltd.
(PVC/plastic producer)
Itai-Itai (Its Hurt) 痛い Case
• Sympthon:
1. Yellow color on teeth
2. Less smell ability
3. Dry mouth
4. Decrease amount of red blood cell
5. Damage on backbone cell
6. Problem of kidney
7. Problem on calcium metabolism
8. Deform of bone structure
• Chapter XII
• Ocean Function:
1.Fisheries overfishing, target of pollution
2.Trade & trasportation oil pollution from ship
3.Mining sedimentation, oil pollution, changing of
marine ecosystem
4.Tourism degradation of coastal area, corral
reefs, mangroves, and pollution
5.Last resorts of wastes land based, dumping.
Bhopal Case - 1984
Basic concept:
• exclusive use for peaceful purposes;
• rational utilization in a spirit of conservation; dan
• good management and transmission to generations to
come.
Intergenerational equity
(right of future generation)
• right of each generation to benefit from and develop the
natural and cultural patrimony inherited from previous
generations in such manner that it can be passed on to
future generations in no worse condition than it was
received.
• each generation should be required to conserve the diversity
and maintain the quality of the planet, and provide each
member with equitable rights of access to the legacy of past
generations and should conserve this access for future
generations.