Right to the favourable environment in Czech law and the law of British Columbia

- 76 - SUMMARY RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IN CZECH LAW AND IN THE LAW OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Master's degree dissertation compares right to a healthy environment in the Czech Republic and in British Columbia, a Canadian province, and makes this comparison upon a variety of standpoints. The work also broaches the environmental regulation in both these mentioned countries in general, as the regulation gives us the context in which the right in question is applied and enforced. The first part of the work is an introductory part that leads us into the area. The first part of work compares definition of fundamental terms related to the focus of this work between legal systems of the Czech Republic and British Columbia. The comparison shows the term "environment" is defined in both these countries quite similarly, but the term "healthy environment" is in none of these countries defined positively, but rather negatively, by enacting values and conditions under which environment can be declared unhealthy. The following part describes the development of legal regulation of environment and in that scope also the right to a healthy environment. The chapter shows that British Columbia, in its hundred years of modern history of legal protection of environment, developed into a phase where environmental law is basically..