环境利益是环境提供给人类所需要的各种满足。人类对环境利益的蒙醒虽然只在晚近,但在漫长的历史长河中,人类并没有对环境漠视,而是从其他视角间接地保护环境。环境利益历经孕育、生长、细化等三个阶段发展至今,已经成为环境法学中的中砥概念,它的发展流变将左右环境法的走向。 Environmental benefits are the kinds of satisfaction that the environment provides to humankind. Although human beings have only recently woke up their environmental interests, they have not ignored the environment for a long period of time but have indirectly protected the environment from other perspectives. Since the development of the three stages of environmental benefits, such as gestation, growth and refinement, the concept of environmental protection has become a mainstream concept in environmental law. Its development and changes will change the direction of environmental law.