Theoretical-conceptual aspects regarding the entitlement of the legal field concerned by the protection of environmental factors

Abstract

Accurate knowledge of the scope of a field or branches of law is an indispensable condition for the evolution of any branch of the legal system. This is also the case with environmental law. Despite the various debates on the correct name of the branch concerned with the protection of environmental factors, launched in the doctrinal space since its inception, today more and more specialists in the field use the phrase “environmental law” when referring to legal relations established during protection environmental protection, development, conservation and rational use of all environmental components, including anthropogenic ones. However, there is currently some controversy regarding the certainty of the legal segment of concern for the field of environmental law, often being confused with that of ecology science, superimposed even at the level of scientific and didactic approach. For this reason, we decided to end the discussions that further complicate matters, trying to show that ecology and the environment, respectively, environmental law are distinct areas, although very close, correlated and coexisting in the legal system.