RATIONAL USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A CIVILIZATIONAL APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF ECOLOGICAL LAW
- Authors: Brinchuk M.M1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
- Issue: No 12 (2025)
- Pages: 110-125
- Section: Environmental law
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/355797
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034543X25120128
- ID: 355797
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Abstract
The article examines the methodological links between the two most important resources of ecological development — rational use of natural resources and sustainable development. In the context of the environmental crisis, as an organic part of the systemic crisis, these resources are considered in the light of the civilizational development of society and the needs for improving ecological legislation. Defects in the practice of economic and ecological development and gaps in ecological legislation are identified. In the light of ensuring natural law justice and overcoming the crisis, proposals for improving the concepts of rational use of natural resources and sustainable development are substantiated.
About the authors
M. M Brinchuk
Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography
Author for correspondence.
Email: brinchuk@gmail.com
Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Researcher of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Land Law and State Registration of Real Estate Moscow, Russia
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