Zhavoronkova, N.G., Agafonov, V.B. Legal problems of economic regulation of environmental protection

Abstract: The article contains a complex study of legal problems regarding economic regulation of environmental protection, and based upon it with due consideration to theoretical and empiric studies of legal norms, establishing economic mechanisms for the environmental protection in the light of current integration processes, the authors single out the main provisions of the state policy in this sphere. The authors substantiate the conclusion that the legal regulation of protection of environment is closely related to the economic regulation of modernization of the state, that is why, the legal methods of regulation of economics, as reflected in the normative legal acts, have a mediated legal influence upon the environmental conditions in general. The theoretical value of the article is due to the fact that its conclusions and conceptual proposals may be used in scientific and practical activities for the improvement of the federal legislation and in the process of teaching environmental law in the leading higher educational institutions of Russia.

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