To the question of recognizing the ecosystem approach as a quintessential principle of environmental law

Authors

  • Євгеній Павлович Суєтнов Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.149.201995

Keywords:

environmental law, environmental legislation, principles of law, principles of environmental law, ecosystem, ecosystem approach, principle of ecosystem approach, quintessence

Abstract

On the grounds of the comprehensive analysis of the views of scientists, the article explores the principle of the ecosystem approach in environmental law.

It is substantiated that in the modern environmental legal doctrine there is no clear and unambiguous understanding of the essence of this principle and its place among other principles of environmental law, because scientists, considering this principle an independent principle, simultaneously recognize it as a sign of rational use of natural resources, identify it with the complex and sustainable use of natural resources or generally see it in the vast majority of principles of environmental law.

Given the novelty, extreme intricacy and unconventionality of the principle of the ecosystem approach, it is proposed to consider it as a quintessential principle of environmental law, which, found on the objective conditions of nature’s existence, denoted by the interdependence and interconditionality of all natural processes and phenomena, “permeates” all principles of environmental law and at the same time serves as their backbone, the essence.

The article concludes by emphasizing the need to rethink environmental law and its principles on the basis of the ecosystem approach.

Author Biography

Євгеній Павлович Суєтнов, Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого

доцент кафедри екологічного права

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Published

2020-06-09

How to Cite

Суєтнов, Є. П. (2020). To the question of recognizing the ecosystem approach as a quintessential principle of environmental law. Problems of Legality, (149), 92–113. https://doi.org/10.21564/2414-990x.149.201995

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Environmental law. Agrarian law