Boundary Adjustment, Transformation and Liquidation of Specially Protected Natural Areas: Problems of Legal Regulation and Law Enforcement

Abstract

Based on the analysis of federal and regional legislation, the practice of their application by authorities, judicial practice, federal legislative initiatives and approaches in the scientific literature, the paper examines the issues of boundaries adjustment, transformation and liquidation of specially protected natural areas. All the considered aspects of this problem indicate the need for its legislative solution at the federal level by clearly defining these concepts, criteria and grounds for decision-making, the sequence of procedures and the timing of decisionmaking. Prior to the adoption of such a decision at the federal level, regional and municipal practice should be subject to revision. The paper concludes that when addressing the development of a network of specially protected natural areas, one should proceed from the priority of preserving natural and historical and cultural complexes and objects on the territory of specially protected natural areas over other tasks, as well as a scientifically based combination of environmental, economic and social approaches for making managerial decisions, systemic and comprehensive solution of problems in the field of organization and functioning of specially protected natural areas. Such principles can only be ensured on the basis of a comprehensive perspective view of the development of a network of such territories, which should be enshrined in the concept of development of specially protected natural areas.