POLLUTER PAYS IN PRACTICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION IN THE EU AND SYRIA

Al-Abbas, Mr Al-Muhtadi (2026) POLLUTER PAYS IN PRACTICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION IN THE EU AND SYRIA. MA/MSc, Erdőmérnöki Kar.

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This thesis examines how the presence or absence of enforceable environmental liability shapes the financing, feasibility, and ecological outcomes of remediation after severe hydrocarbon contamination. It compares the European Union, where the Polluter Pays Principle is operationalised through liability-based environmental governance, with Syria, where conflict, fragmented authority, and weak enforcement have allowed widespread contamination to persist as orphan pollution. The study adopts an interdisciplinary comparative design combining legal-financial analysis, geospatial assessment, and techno-economic evaluation. First, it analyses how the EU Environmental Liability Directive and related liability mechanisms allocate responsibility, structure cost recovery, and support remediation planning, and contrasts this with the limited practical reach of environmental accountability in the Syrian conflict-affected context. Second, it uses secondary geospatial data, particularly vegetation- and moisture-related satellite indicators, to assess ecological stress and disturbance patterns associated with hydrocarbon activity, and to compare unmanaged degradation in Syria with a Romanian land-based remediation context situated within the wider EU framework. Third, it evaluates remediation pathways in terms of feasibility class, cost intensity, institutional requirements, and operational constraints, rather than relying on precise site budgets that are unavailable in the Syrian case. The central argument is that remediation is not determined by technical knowledge alone: it depends on whether liability can be assigned, enforced, and translated into financing. Where liability functions, remediation becomes economically actionable; where it collapses, contamination persists, and restoration strategies must be adapted to scarcity. On this basis, the thesis proposes phytoremediation, using drought-resistant native species, as a realistic low-cost remediation pathway for hydrocarbon-affected ecosystems where conventional approaches are financially or institutionally unattainable. In doing so, the study links environmental law, remote sensing, and restoration engineering to show how governance conditions shape ecological recovery.

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A SZENNYEZŐ FIZET ELVE A GYAKORLATBAN: A KÖRNYEZETI FELELŐSSÉG ÉS AZ ÖKOLÓGIAI KÁRMENTESÍTÉS ÖSSZEHASONLÍTÓ ELEMZÉSE AZ EURÓPAI UNIÓ ÉS SZÍRIA ESETÉBEN

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POLLUTER PAYS IN PRACTICE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY AND ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION IN THE EU AND SYRIA

Intézmény

Soproni Egyetem

Kar

Erdőmérnöki Kar

Tanszékcsoport/intézet

EMK - Erdő- és Természeti Erőforrás-gazdálkodási Intézet

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NEM RÉSZLETEZETT

Témavezető(k)

Mű típusa:	Diplomadolgozat (MA/MSc)
Felhasználói azonosító szám (ID):	Mr Al-Muhtadi Al-Abbas
Dátum:	18 Aug 2026 10:23
Utolsó módosítás:	18 Aug 2026 10:23
URI:	http://diploma.uni-sopron.hu/id/eprint/16653

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