Environmental Administrative Decisions: A Fundamental Legal Study

Abstract

This scientific article aims to define the concepts relating to environmental administration, with particular focus on administrative decisions as one of the most important mechanisms for regulating environmental administrative action. This is achieved through a systematic examination of environmental administrative decisions, which play a significant role in the protection of the environment and in entrenching the principle of environmental safety as enshrined in the Algerian Constitution of 2020, by highlighting the available environmental administrative instruments. These instruments encompass a body of administrative, constitutional, and legal rules and procedures that regulate the relationship between humanity and the environment — including its elements of air, water, and soil — in order to guarantee environmental safety and ensure the continuity of life in a sound environment, objectives that are attainable only through the adoption of sound environmental administrative decisions that govern this domain.