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In the legal sense, environmental damage is comprised of two levels. The first is private rights damage, such as damage to personal health and property rights caused by man-made pollution. The second is an adverse change in the environmental elements (including atmosphere, groundwater, surface water, and soil) and the biological elements (such as plants, animals and microorganisms), as well as the functional degradation of the ecosystem consisting of these elements, due to the environmental pollution and ecological destruction (Faure & Liu, 2012).
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Wu, J., Chang, IS. (2020). Compensation for Environmental Damage. In: Environmental Management in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4894-9_14
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