Law and Ecology: Interdependence of Scientific Fields in Teaching a Jurist

Introduction. The global environmental crisis unfolding nowadays requires changes not only in the policies of the single states, but also in the public worldview, because the laws, even most perfect, are not able to change the situation if citizens reject laws’ basic postulates. If the society is convinced that nature exists exclusively for satisfying the economic demands in natural resources and its only function is to serve people’s needs, the attempts to stop poaching or reduce the number of unauthorised waste dumps will never achieve the goal. The aim of the study is to determine the disputable aspects in legal regulation of the environmental education, its organisational and methodological problems, the issues of ecological worldview formation in law ecologists through extending the interdisciplinary relations and some other issues.

Materials and Methods. Legal, organisational, worldview, methodological and other aspects of the environmental and law education development in the Russian Federation are considered using the scientific knowledge methods generally accepted in Russia: general scientific (dialectical method) and specific scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, concrete-historical, logical methods, etc.).

Results. The systematisation of the modern problems of the environmental and law education in Russia has been carried out, the recommendations on improvement of its efficiency have been outlined. In the course of the research, the authors have paid special attention to the review of concepts of nature and society interaction, enabling to form students’ worldview adequate to the modern environmental threats. In the article the concepts of sustainable development, “green” economy, the theory of climate change and the concept of cyclic economy are analysed.

Discussion and Conclusions. To increase the efficiency of the Russian environmental and law education, the complex of multidirectional measures of legal, organisational, methodological and other scope is required, which would bring modern law education closer to solving the environmental problems of the XXI century. The conducted research has theoretical and practical significance and is targeted at persons engaged in professional training of future jurists.

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