Legal Problems of Strategizing in Environmental Law

Abstract

Quite a large number of papers in contemporary legal literature are devoted to documents of strategic planning. The recent adoption of numerous concepts, strategies, programmes, and plans, including those in the environmental field, requires not only scientifically sound development, harmonization and approval of planned indicators and benchmarks envisaged in those documents but also their accomplishment. In this regard, the paper highlights the necessity of research and improvement of strategizing as a management function that not only fixes final goals in strategic documents but also provides for the mechanism for their achievement, including monitoring of the planned indicators. Strategising acquires particular importance in the ecological area characterized by instability, deterioration of the quality of the environment under the influence of economic and other activities, its negative impact on the health of the population.The paper considers the issues of strategizing as an independent process of an organizing ecologic and legal activity and the mechanism of ensuring environmental rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution. The author has shown the influence of strategizing on efficiency of the state and municipal regulation in the area of environmental protection, sustainable use of natural resources and environmental safety.The paper justifies the necessity of separating ecological strategizing as an independent type of strategizing and institutionalizing of such relations in environmental law. The paper identifies the problems of strategizing in the field of environmental development, including the procedure of preparation, coordination and adoption of documents of strategic planning, development of criteria and planning indicators, monitoring of their achievement, the activities of relevant authorities and their interaction. The paper has determined the problems and mandatory conditions for the creation of an effective mechanism of ecological strategizing including its information support.As the result of the study, the author suggests new approaches to the strategizing in the field of environmental development and its improvement.