Open AccessFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL AND LEGAL MECHANISM OF ENSURING ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Author(s) -
Elena Vorontsova,
А. Л. Воронцов
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
izvestiâ ûgo-zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-6757
pISSN - 2223-1560
DOI - 10.21869/2223-1560-2017-21-5-196-203
Subject(s) - politics , government (linguistics) , population , globalization , business , political science , economics , law , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , demography
The article is devoted to the problems of forming a political and legal mechanism for ensuring environmental safety in the global and European space. The authors are trying to identify the root causes of the ecological crisis that has befallen the planet and conclude that the current ecological situation is a natural result of man's economic activity based on the principle that "man is the king of nature" and that he aims to improve material well-being. The authors note the fallacy of this worldview position. At the same time, they state that a significant part of the world population does not have the necessary awareness of the environmental threat, which carries the traditional manufacturing approach based on the uncontrolled use of natural resources and especially the consumer attitude towards natural capital. The article focuses attention on the fact that the global economy continues to develop the processes of liberalization and globalization, which only increases the need to implement both effective international environmental policy and national policies. It emphasizes the need for joint efforts of the scientific community, environmental organizations, business elites and government agencies in the process of overcoming the existing production and technological inertia that threatens to lead humanity to disaster. It is noted that the foundations of a common political and legal mechanism in the sphere of ensuring environmental safety and environmental protection have already been formed at the international level, but not all states can connect to it due to their development. Thus, the Green Growth Strategy adopted by the OECD member countries faces objective difficulties in the process of its implementation even in the most developed countries, which makes it necessary to further improve the political, legal and economic mechanisms for ensuring environmental safety with taking into account national peculiarities.