Research on the Judicial Application of The Punitive Damages System for Environmental Infringement

Under the initiative of "a community with a shared future for mankind", discussion ecological environment protection is growing nationwide, and legal issues that follow have also received more attention. For this reason, China has introduced system "punitive compensation" into field environmental tort in Article 1232 Civil Code to achieve effect protection. This paper will study from perspective comparative law, through comparing legislative research judicial application punitive damages United States, then clarify regulation path tort, further improve framework system.