Author(s)

Georgios A. Moutsinas^*, Georgios Meletiadis, Zoi Patetsou, Dimitrios S. Prampromis, Konstantinos D. Patitsas, Sofoklis E. Dritsas

Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, & Department of Special Education, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

We are living in an age, where the connection between the concepts of “environment” and “justice” is disputed in terms of its very existence and practical application. At the same time, the force of environmental law is encountered in a variety of institutional organizations internationally, among which the European Union and its cohesive member states play a pivotal role, albeit with differences amid its Community partners. In the present paper, the compliance of Greek environmental law with the European one is studied in the light of intragenerational and intergenerational justice. Methodologically, a systematic review of 106 institutional documents and scientific bibliographic references was carried out, acquiescing in the instructions of the PRISMA Statement (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, Altman, & The PRISMA Group, 2009; Page et al., 2021). The findings of the research showed both the prevalence of appropriate institutional mechanisms at Community and Greek domestic level, as well as the chronic shortcomings of Greece in relation to the unhindered implementation of the European environmental regulations. Consequently, the need to redefine Greek national policies so as to be characterized by an explicit ecological orientation and to update the investigated issue in the context of the current coronavirus pandemic emerges.

Environmental Law, European Union, Greece, Intragenerational Justice, Intergenerational Justice

Moutsinas, G. , Meletiadis, G. , Patetsou, Z. , Prampromis, D. , Patitsas, K. and Dritsas, S. (2022) The Alignment of Greece with the Environmental Law of the European Union: Historical Development, Current Trends and Critical Implications with Regard to the Challenge of Intragenerational and Intergenerational Justice. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 476-501. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.102033.