Social and Monetary Forms of Securing Rational and Efficient Use and Protection of Lands: A Regional Aspect

In: State power and local self-government, Band 10, S. 14-17

Abstract

Based on the analysis of land legislation of the Russian Federation and of constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and also taking into account legal positions of the constitutional Court of the Russian Federation the article considers topical issues of legislative development to ensure the rational and efficient use and protection of land in light of development of social functions of natural resources and improving the welfare of citizens, and ensure the constitutional regime of use of land and other natural resources as public (public) domain, the natural basis of social-environmental well-being of present and future generations of the peoples of Russia. As positive examples of advanced legal regulation of land relations at the regional level, the author considers legal forms of stimulating land use and the socio-monetary forms of preventive protection of land resources from irrational and inefficient use.