| The Law on Protected Natural Reserves, the Law on National Parks and other legislations on protected natural reserves, as emerging environmental laws, may contradict and overlap with other environmental laws and, therefore, it is necessary to clarify their value orientations and corresponding normative expressions. Against the background of the enshrinement of the construction of ecological civilization into the Constitution and the basic environmental law, the "protection first" principle and the comprehensive treatment principle of the basic environmental law embody the value expectation of giving priority to the protection of ecological integrity, which needs to be expressed through the legislation on protected natural reserves. Compared with pollution prevention and control laws and resources protection laws, the legislation on protected natural reserves takes the protection of the ecological environment as its fundamental objective, is characterized by the systematicness of regulated targets and the adaptiveness of regulatory methods, and therefore is able to meet the need of giving priority to the protection of ecological integrity. To realize this value expectation, China should establish through the legislation on protected natural reserves an institutional system with area-based protection level system and integrated behavior control system as the core, and adopt a general-specific structure of "a basic law on protected natural reserves + special laws on different kinds of protected natural reserves". |
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