The criminal standard to fight against prejudice to nature : towards the recognition of en essential value ; La norme pénale pour lutter contre les atteintes à la nature : vers la reconnaissance d'une valeur essentielle

With the gradual advent of the industrial era, human activity has weighed more negatively on the balance of natural environments. This was followed by the gradual construction of a very repressive law for environment, intended to combat prejudice against nature, but chronically prepared on the very bases of administrative police, a seated concept on the basis of a resolutely disciplinary law, structurally and morally insufficient to reveal an essential value. Tort, as well as environmental liability regime aim to invent new legal concepts in order to redress the damage to nature, but they reveal many limitations.In this context, the criminal standard, meant to be especially utilitarian, is both an auxiliary of administrative right and an auxiliary of remedial standards, and remains without influence in bringing out the real value of the protected interest.It is such an analysis that the protection of nature, as an essential value, may be used only by recourse to an effective criminal law established on the bases of ethical foundations understood and accepted by everybody. This thesis of law fits into a forward-looking approach that would contribute to such an outcome by trying to rethink and restructure the special criminal law of the environment so as to offer the repressive judge the opportunity to exercise a true value judgment on self-destructive and now recognized violations of mankind itself. ; Avec l’avènement progressif de l’ère industrielle, l’activité de l’homme a pesé de plus en plus négativement sur l’équilibre des milieux naturels. Il s’en est suivi la construction progressive d’un droit répressif de l’environnement, destiné à lutter contre les atteintes à la nature, mais chroniquement élaboré sur les bases même d’un dispositif de police administrative, un concept assis sur les fondements d’un droit résolument disciplinaire, structurellement et moralement insuffisant pour révéler une valeur essentielle. La responsabilité délictuelle ainsi que le régime de responsabilité environnementale visent à ...