ELIMINATION OF ACCUMULATED ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IN THE ARCTIC AS A MECHANISM TO PROVIDE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

The article discusses the current state of the legal mechanism for the elimination of acсumulated environmental damage in the Arctic; identifies the distinguishing features of such elimination, its importance in ensuring constitutional environmental human rights; determines the legal mechanism for the elimination of accumulated environmental damage, arising issues and their solutions on the example of the Arctic region, which ecosystem is highly sensitive to external influences from human production activities. The authors conclude that there are separate problems in eliminating the accumulated environmental damage, primarily related to the imperfection of the legal regulation of the social relations under consideration. Based on the aforementioned, the authors propose approaches to solve the arising issues through particular changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation. In the course of the study, both general scientific and particular methods of scientific knowledge were used as following: dialectical, analysis and synthesis, formal legal and comparative methods.