On the Legal System of Environment and Resources

文伯屏，中国社会科学院法学研宄所研究员，兼任世界自然保护联盟环境法委员会委 员、中国法学会环境资源法学研究会顾问、福州大学兼职教授等职。【中文摘要】本文首先介绍了法律体系学概况，为研究中国法律体系问题提供正确的法理依据，阐明了建立科学的中国法律体系学说的重要理论意义和实践意义；其次，着重论述了中国环境资源立法简史和环境资源法体系的渊源、概念、结 构、内涵、外延、特征及其在中国法律体系中的位置等；再次，将环境资源法与经济法作了比较研究，强调指出环境资源法不是经济法的组成部分，而是与刑法、民 法、行政法等部门法并列的一级部门法。 【Abstract】 This paper starts with an overview of the science of legal system, providing correct jurisprudential basis for the study of issues in relation to China^ legal system and expounding the great theoretical and practical significance of the establishment of scientific legal system theory in China. The paper then recounts the brief history of China's legislation in respect of environment and resources as well as the origin, concept, structure, connotation, denotation, characteristics of the legal system concerning environment and resources and its status in China’s legal system. At the end，the paper makes a comparative study between the law of environment and resources and economic law, stressing that the law of environment and resources is not a component of economic law，but a first-level departmental law in parallel with other departmental laws, such as criminal law, civil law and executive law