Abstract
The article examines acute problems of ensuring a favorable environment in urbanized areas. The author pays special attention to the greening of the urban economy by implementing the “Smart City” program’s digital technologies. The study rests on research and particular scientific methods of cognition. The dialectical method made it possible to ensure a favorable environment in urban areas and, in conjunction with indicators, assess its quality. The comparative legal method is taken as a basis for identifying general trends in the use of new information technologies to determine the quality of a favorable environment. The article emphases that the implementation of information technology in ensuring a favorable environment contributes to an increase in the effectiveness of measures aimed at protecting it from negative influences. Simultaneously, indications of the effectiveness of the implementation of promising programs, including the Smart City program, use virtual indicators that are not accompanied by indicators that allow assessing the degree of environmental friendliness in quantitative terms. The article contains suggestions for improving the mechanism for protecting a favorable environment in the “Smart City” development program.
Highlights
The mechanism for ensuring the right of everyone to a favorable environment, guaranteed by Art. 42 of the Russian Federation's Constitution is directly related to protecting the environment from economic and other activities' negative impacts
The system of state measures to ensure the constitutional right to a healthy environment presupposes the existence of duties and powers assigned to public authorities. These include the obligation to protect human rights (Art. 2 of the Constitution of Russia), the obligation to ensure environmental protection, the prevention and elimination of the consequences of human-made accidents and disasters, the obligation to ensure the principle of the priority of public interests, including through the legal regulation of relations in environmental protection and ensuring environmental safety, and the right to interact with the population and take into account the opinion of citizens when locating objects, economic and other activities of which may harm the environment
The principle of public interest in environmental protection and ensuring environmental safety was designated in the positions of the Constitutional Court of Russia as a priority and determining the constitutional responsibility of public authorities for the preservation of nature and the environment, which necessitates legal regulation aimed at compulsory adoption of measures to contain environmental pollution, prevention and minimization of environmental risks
Summary
The mechanism for ensuring the right of everyone to a favorable environment, guaranteed by Art. 42 of the Russian Federation's Constitution is directly related to protecting the environment from economic and other activities' negative impacts.A noticeable trend in Russia's environmental development is expanding the practice of using new information technologies to ensure environmental protection.To achieve effective environmental development, the principles of law and indicators are essential to assess the environment's quality. The mechanism for ensuring the right of everyone to a favorable environment, guaranteed by Art. 42 of the Russian Federation's Constitution is directly related to protecting the environment from economic and other activities' negative impacts. A noticeable trend in Russia's environmental development is expanding the practice of using new information technologies to ensure environmental protection. The said principle stimulates the development of innovative methods of protecting a favorable environment, which is especially important in the development and modernization of the digital state.
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