Punitive Damages for Environmental Public Welfare: An Empirical StudyofLegal Attributes and Attribution

As an important legal mechanism of local social governance, punitive damages forenvironmental public welfare can have a certain deterrent effect on regional environmentaldamage, so as to improve the social governance environment and protect regional public interests. In the case of increasingly serious environmental problems, the difficulty of local environmentalgovernance is increasing, and local governments and legal circles have discussed the issue ofregional punitive damages to promote the improvement of the regional social governanceenvironment. On this basis, this paper puts forward several hypotheses. the regional attributionofpunitive damages for environmental public welfare, and the relationship between the amount andregional environmental restoration; the implementer of regional punitive damages, therelationship between legal regional limitation and regional environmental protection; The impactof the improvement of the regional social governance system and the soundness of the lawon theeffect of punitive damages, as well as the relationship between the participation rate ofgovernments at all levels and the fairness of the whole society. The results showthat whetherlocal governments have an impact on public welfare disposal, as well as regional administrativepenalties and environmental damage compensation, have an impact on environmental publicwelfare punitive damages, and the relationship between regional environmental restoration andgovernance deterrence. The results show that there is a positive correlation between publicwelfare punishment and departmental collaboration on environmental restoration, whichishelpful to improve the credibility of environmental governance and play a deterrent role in law. Regional environmental public interest punishment has obvious regional autonomy, but it needsto be positively correlated with the two under the legal framework of the AdministrativePunishment Law of the People's Republic of China. There is a significant positive correlationbetween punitive damages for ecological and environmental welfare, social governance, environment, and public cognition, and the two promote each other. In general, punitive damagesfor environmental public welfare should be in accordance with national laws, combined withregional governance, and give full play to the deterrent effect of the law to provide support forregional environmental protection