Regional Strategic Planning of hunting Nature Management: Political and Legal Aspects of Ensuring Sustainable Development

Abstract

Hunting nature management traditionally has an important place in the life of society as it performs various functions that help to solve a whole range of environmental, economic and social tasks and problems. Today, ensuring sustainability in the field of hunting and conservation of hunting resources is a strategic environmental priority implemented through the legal policy of state and legal regulators. An analysis of the federal faunal legislation and requirements for subnational acts of strategic planning of hunting nature management points out a number of significant substantive and procedural problems. The author finds it necessary to define and legalize the priority type of hunting activities in the Russian Federation, to improve the legislation, in particular, to make public discussions and professional examination of territorial hunting management schemes mandatory. The author concludes that the system of territorial hunting management planning in the Russian Federation is incomplete in both spatial and temporal aspects. He summarizes that the elimination of the identified defects is a prerequisite for ensuring the sustainable development of hunting nature management.