What are the characteristics of environmental law compared with other laws?

As an independent legal department, environmental law has the following characteristics compared with other legal departments: ① comprehensiveness. The scope of environmental protection is extensive, and the adjusted social relations are quite complicated. Environmental law not only includes a large number of specialized environmental protection laws and regulations, but also includes the provisions on environmental protection in the Constitution, administrative law, civil law, criminal law, labor law, economic law and other laws and regulations. 2 technology. Environmental protection must adopt natural science, engineering technology, economy and other means, and environmental law is closely related to the above means. Therefore, there are many technical specifications in environmental law. ③ Extensive sociality. Environmental law, like other laws, is restricted by social and economic system, but its protection object is natural environment such as land, atmosphere, water and forest, so it is restricted by objective natural ecological laws. As a legal department, environmental law is indeed the embodiment of the will of the ruling class and serves the interests of the ruling class, but it also conforms to the interests of the whole society and nation to varying degrees. 4 * * * Same sex. The earth environment in which human beings live is a whole, and environmental problems are also the same problems faced by human beings. In the social relations adjusted by environmental law, more problems involve economic development, production management and science and technology, reflecting some laws of social development, economy and nature. Compared with other laws, the environmental laws of various countries can learn a lot from each other.