ECOLOGICAL AND TECHNOGENIC SAFETY: SPECIAL ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND PROBLEMS OF LEGAL REGULATION

Ecological safety is not a new area of scientific research, however, there is still no single definition of the concept, and no signs and measures to ensure ecological safety are studied. The paper attempts to consider special aspects of the conceptual framework of environmental and technogenic safety enshrined both in domestic and foreign legislation. The author examines the environmental legislation norms, both Russian and foreign enshrining legal security values in this area, as well as the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation; analyzes various views on the concept of ecological safety. The research sets a goal to identify differences in the content of categories under the study, which is a prerequisite for the efficient activity of an executor of law in the sphere of provision of corresponding types of safety. The author attempts to develop a unified approach to the understanding of ecological and technogenic safety firstly as scientific categories, which in the future can become the basis for consistent implementation of national security policy in the framework of the legal protection of the environment to balance private and public interests. The novelty of the study is in the conclusions about the scope and content of the concepts of environmental and technogenic safety. As a result of the study, the author formulates the differences in the wording of such categories as ecological safety and technogenic safety, attributes of ecological and technogenic safety, and gives their definitions.