Educating the consumer about his right to a healthy environment

Abstract

The healthy environment is one of the most important problems of our century, because of the human activities impact on the fragile balance between man and environment in which they live. In all countries, including Romania, the problem is especially serious because millions of people suffer in one way or another, from environmental damage (chemical pollution, noise, ecosystems degradation⋯), because they don't know they have the right to live in a healthy environment. To be able to maintain and exercise their right, to respect and to enforce this requirement, individuals must be educated and have access to information, take part in decisions and to access to justice in environmental matters. This article, therefore, proposed to introduce the main ways of information and education the Romanian consumer on his right to a healthy environment. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.