title: [Environmental damage assessment: international regulations and revelation to China].
abstract: As the whole society gradually realizes the scarcity of nature resources and environmental value, countries all over the world have evolved and improved the system of environmental damage assessment through the practices of pollution prevention and ecological environmental protection. On one hand, in the research prospective, the practices of environmental damage assessment brought new challenges to environmental law, environmental economics, environmental science, environmental engineering, etc. On the other hand, they constantly promoted and developed relevant laws and regulations, techniques, working mechanism, and guidelines on procedure in practice. On the hasis of comparison and analysis of international practices and experiences from US, EU, and Japan, etc., this article identified relevant concepts, content, and scope of environmental damage assessment, and presented its scientific positioning and development direction. At present, both theory and practice of environmental damage assessment in China are in their infancy period. Considering current environmental situation and socioeconomic development features of China, learning international practices and experiences and raising the orientation of environmental damage assessment have great meaning in exploring the suitable environmental damage assessment system.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Damage and Risk Assessment, Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing 100012, China. hongzhenzhang@126.com
authors.forename: Hong-zhen
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jin-nan
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Tian-zhu
authors.initials: TZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yong-ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D058735:Environmental Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005062:European Union; D007564:Japan; D014481:United States