Compensation for environmental victims in international jurisprudence and international environmental law

Human attention to material well-being and economic development, environmental issues and compensation has become one of the most important human concerns. In this article, an attempt has been made to examine the compensation of environmental victims from the perspective of jurisprudence and international law.

This is a leading descriptive-analytical article using a library method.

Findings show that in jurisprudence, compensation for environmental victims has a special place. In jurisprudence, the rule of loss, the rule of causation and the rule of no harm, the necessity of compensating the victims of the environment can be deduced. In international law, the principle of compensation for environmental victims based on theories such as fault and error, is accepted in various documents and restoration, compensation, lost consent and commitment to prevent the most important methods of environmental compensation for victims of environmental damage.Ethical considerations: In different stages of writing the article, ethical and scientific principles have been observed, including the scientific and accurate use of scientific resources.

The impossibility of determining the exact amount of damage and sometimes the impossibility of compensation in the form of restoration to the previous situation is one of the challenges in the field of compensation for environmental victims. Compensation for environmental damage is not accountable under existing rules of civil liability, such as fault, and absolute liability needs to be addressed in both domestic law and international instruments.