The environment, its concept and elements

الملخص

The Creator - the Almighty - created everything with a measure, and balanced all the components that would sustain life on the surface of the earth. God Almighty said: “Indeed, We created everything according to a measure.” However, man worked to change the environmental balance by working to deplete resources and pollute the environment. Especially since the problem of pollution has affected all the environmental elements surrounding humans, including water, air, soil, and food, and has become a global problem that has led to the world experiencing an environmental crisis today; Therefore, the alarm was sounded in order to take effective positive steps, whether at the national or international levels.

Defining the concept of environment is considered one of the first difficulties surrounding this term, especially from a jurisprudential and legal perspective, given the difference in visions, goals, and starting points. The biological view differs from the economic view, and they differ from the legal view. Preserving the environment is one of the important necessities in this contemporary life in which pollutants are abundant. Man, in his pursuit of progress and sophistication, may achieve well-being, but this progress, on the other hand, carries with it harmful negative effects on man and the environment.