Environmental Lawmaking as Part of Social Planning

Abstract

The paper discusses the place and role of environmental lawmaking in the system of social and socio-economic planning. Planning is considered as an activity of special subjects in the field of ensuring a favorable environment, rational use of natural resources and ensuring environmental safety, carried out by legal means. The authors analyzed the «environmental lawmaking» that has taken place over the past decades and identified the main trends in its transformation. The main causes of the current state of environmental policy and legislative activity are investigated.

It is shown that for our country, which has the most integral and organic system of strategic planning, the issue of increasing the efficiency of all types and forms of planning, but especially environmental or environmental-economic, is extremely important.

It is substantiated that for further lawmaking in the field of environmental development and environmental safety, a new methodology for the preparation, adoption and implementation of legislation is needed. The growing fragmentation of environmental legislation, the allocation of more and more new «branches of environmental law» is becoming the biggest obstacle to meaningful and effective planning and law enforcement. It will take too much effort to «harmonize» the already adopted legislation and future acts built on the principle of «new problem — new industry».