与传统的民事诉讼相比,环境民事诉讼具有诉讼主体广泛、损失计算复杂、诉讼时效长等特点。美国和日本的环境民事诉讼制度的发展从理论到实践都比较成功。我国在环境民事诉讼方面还存在着法律规定不明确、诉讼主体范围狭窄、诉讼时效期间过短、赔偿范围小等不足。我国应当借鉴西方国家成功的环境民事诉讼立法经验,进一步完善环境民事诉讼制度。 Compared with the traditional civil litigation, environmental civil litigation has the characteristics of extensive litigation, complex calculation of losses and long time limit of litigation. The development of environmental civil litigation system in the United States and Japan has been quite successful both from theory and practice. In the aspect of environmental civil litigation in our country, there are still some problems such as the legal provisions are not clear, the scope of litigation is narrow, the duration of litigation is too short, the scope of compensation is small and so on. Our country should draw lessons from the successful experiences of environmental legislation in Western civil lawsuits to further improve the environmental civil litigation system.