Administering the environment: Compliance enforcement and challenges

Abstract

The environment needs to be protected from various harmful substances and vices. In this regard, administrative law provides ample principles that can be used to administer and enforce environmental principles and laws. In the course of administration, the rules are to guide and fully complied with so as not to act ultra vires. All interested parties have to be given access and opportunity before any decision is made. This paper looks at how the environment can be managed and protected for the benefit of all and the necessary and just administrative actions that can be used against transgressors to remedy and restore the damage done.