Genesis of Shaping a Concept of Environmental Safety in a Global Social and Political Thought and Political and Legal Practice

Abstract

The article carries out a retrospective analysis of the genesis of shaping a concept of environmental security in world social and political thought and political and legal practice. The phenomenon of ecological security is considered as one of the most important issues of today’s reality, which reflects the influence of human activity in various fields on the natural environment is acute and is an urgent problem of our time, which actualizes the need for scientific understanding of phenomena and processes of both global environmental changes and direct human influence on the public environment in the context of public management and regulation processes of ensuring environmental security of national states and the whole world community It is emphasized that the global level of environmental security problems requires appropriate global response: understanding, conceptualization and development appropriate planetary strategy and public policy of environmental protection security and institutionalization of interstate, national and social structures necessary for the implementation of such a policy. It was concluded that the concept of environmental security, which originated on the border 18th–20th centuries, began to receive its scientific and social and political interpretation in the 20th century, but arose most acutely from the beginning of the third millennium, when humanity became aware of the threatening patterns of further increasing anthropogenic harmful impact on the environment. The issue of environmental safety were regularly considered at the highest level of the UN conference. However, the desired the result has not yet been achieved and the «window of opportunity» for humanity is getting narrow