Legal regulations on environmental safety in the Arctic zone

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Bratanovskiy, S N, Epifanov, A E, Bobodzhanova, L K, Krasnozhenova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2019
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012017; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012017/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012017

Abstract Ensuring environmental safety in the Arctic zone is currently an essential national and public goal. The living standards and development of socio-economic relations depend on appropriate legal regulations of the government bodies of the territories of the Russian High North. The article considers peculiarities of legal regulations, environmental safety of the above-mentioned regions. It also describes organizational and legal evaluation of measures that are conducted to replenish environmental losses and restore natural landscape. One of the main issues in this field is to intensify activity of environmental organizations which are in charge of human rights; therefore, the ways how to improve their work have been determined. Conceptual conclusions have been drawn on the necessary procedures of the state policy in the sphere of ecology and natural resources. They include the following: to establish a special government agency aimed at maintaining the centralized control over extraction activities and mineral resource exploitation; to take urgent measures focused on restoration of natural environment damaged as a result of harmful impact; to expand legal regulations of environmental activities within this region through passing special statutory acts; establishing the public administration system in this field with cooperative efforts of the federal government and public authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation.