Legal regulation of environmental damage compensation: problems of theory and practice

Abstract

The article examines the issues of theory and practice of compensation for environmental damage, and formulates its concept. Attention is drawn to the features of compensation of harm to the environment in the context of judicial practices, discusses the legal position of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Court, the conclusion about inadmissibility of adoption subjects of the Russian Federation normative acts regulating compensation of harm to the environment at rates and methods. The conclusion that harm to human life, health and property caused by the negative impact of the environment (secondary or ecogenic harm) can be compensated in three different ways: insurance; in court; in public.