우리나라 환경법의 문제점과 과제

Formulation of Korean environmental law is typical example of ‘revolution from above’ driven by government. This is strikingly contrary to environmental legislation such as National Environmental Policy Act 1969 driven by U. S. Congress based on environmental awareness of people in U.S.A. and environmental legislation by effort of local government and concerted action by the residents in Japan. Considering this point, environmental legislation in Korea is not autogenic from its start. Belated starting of environmental agency in 1980's clearly shows this. And it can be explained by so-called "non-decision making theory". The number of laws which fall under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Environment is approximately fifty as of January 1, 2011. Therefore, both general people and public official don't know exact meaning of related regulation for its complexity. This article tries to introduce system of current multiple Korean environmental law and its problem to find a resolution for modifying of various environmental laws and regulations. To this aim, this article is composed of five chapters as follows. The first chapter is introduction of this article. The second chapter covers system of current multiple Korean environmental law and its problem. The third chapter covers the necessity of modifying various laws and regulations and cases of French integrated environmental law and German integrated environmental draft bill. The fourth chapter covers tasks of modifying of Korean Environmental Law toward integrated environmental law. The fifth chapter draws conclusions of this article. To this end, the importance of careful preparation for this will be needed more urgently.