Legal Protection of Ecological Safety: National and International Aspects

Abstract

The article summarizes and comments on the main approaches to the definition of the concept of ecological safety, its goals and tasks, and reveals the current state of legal provision of environmental safety at the national and international levels. The in-depth analysis of the issue provides the grounds to draw a conclusion that national and international security is impossible without taking into account the environmental factor. In terms of a global approach to security, any aspect that threatens the survival of the planet and its nature must be considered as a safety threat. The emphasis is laid on the hotly debated environmental problems at the national and international levels that slow down, and sometimes even make the process of solving environmental problems and ensuring environmental safety impossible. The burning issues to be solved urgently are: 1) radical change in the attitude of people towards environmental issues and the rational use of natural resources; 2) uniting the efforts of all countries to overcome the current environmental crisis in the world; 3) improving the existing and creating a new regulatory framework for environmental safety.