Environmental issues and a role of the state in resolving them

The aim of this article is to identify and understand the environmental issues of importance for understanding of the legal regulation in the field of the environment. The first problems were shown to have been identified in the second half of the last century, and it was during this period that the first environmental values in the form of the establishment of «favorable living conditions in the environment for the benefit of present and future generations» began to form and get the legal consolidation in the international documents. Despite the measures undertaken the environmental issues continue to progress and get more global. In recent years the environmental issues are expressed in the form of air pollution, that makes the morbidity and mortality rates higher, the useful land areas are decreasing, about 30-40% percent of population uses water that does not comply with hygiene standards. This article provides an overview and shows the systemic complexity of environmental issues. The environmental issues are found to have a collective nature permeating social, economic, political and psychological spheres of society, and thereby they are twice as difficult in contrast to other areas of law. Only the State, as a power structure, may use the law to solve environmental issues in the form of changing in social relations. With the help of imperative and organizational actions the State is capable to change a behavior pattern of the subjects of public relations in the environmentally friendly direction. At the end of this article there are the conclusions about the study in the form of new directions for the development of the State ecological and legal regulation. This article must be interesting for legal practitioners, law ecologists and environmental experts.

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