Promoting Environmental Justice is undeniably one of the most crucial and pressing issues in modern-times area, which entails numerous challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and resource depletion, all of which require implementing efficient regulations and enforcement frameworks, empowering local communities to have a meaningful voice in decision-making, educating and raising awareness to current issues. This comparative study focuses on the effort of promoting Environmental Justice in natural resources management through improving the enforcement framework of environmental laws and promoting general good governance. The compared jurisdictions are Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany. The benchmark for the comparative analysis is the International Law, and each of the chosen topics for this analysis reflects a principle of International Law that was implemented in one or both domestic systems. The main goal of the comparative analysis is to go through all the stages of administrative enforcement which precede the stage of criminal enforcement and to identify possible points for improvement in the current Israeli mechanism. After conducting the comparison, this analysis has successfully produced a list of recommendations for the improvement of the current enforcement framework in Israel. Implementing those recommendations, even partially, could contribute for promoting Environmental Justice values in natural resources management, increasing general good governance and efficiency, mitigating possible injustices and balancing the power gap between the different participants in the natural resources area, increasing general fairness and strengthening the public trust in the state’s authorities.
Shany Gal Greenberg (Thu,) studied this question.