Development of public administration in the field of environmental protection

Abstract

The article considers a wide range of problems existing in the area of public administration of environmental protection that have systematic nature. To such problems the author refers the following: inconsistency of the activity of government authorities in implementation of public policy by means of public administration, changes in the objectives of public policy and management in the area of environmental protection that more and more often involve the issues of economic efficiency of activities of a state, disregard for changes of the essence of ecological function that develops together with the development of the society The author enumerates approaches aimed at reconsidering the named problems and amendments to the content of the state activity It is shown that the problem of defining the purposes is a systematic problem of improvement of public administration in the area of environmental protection. This problem is closely connected with an administrative reform that is continuing in the state. The task of the latter is to increase state efficiency In addition, after not the best administrative reforms have been carried out in foreign states that implement a so-called concept of a new state management, the efficiency of a state will be changed by economic means, namely, economic efficiency of the state activity and state authorities. Hence, the public services, the range, the quantity and the quality of which can be measured in monetary terms The author identifies a systematic problem that is caused by the issue of the content of the environmental function of the state being still unsolved. As public administration in the area of environmental protection is the main way of implementing the environmental function of the state, the content of the latter predetermines the limits of the state influence on environmental relations (environmental area). The author considers to be important the issue whether the environmental function of the state covers all social environmental relations