Abstract
Systemic economic, environmental and social problems of rural areas in modern world make the issue of public policy for their sustainable development particularly topical. The socioeconomic development of the Russian Federation, increased volumes of agricultural output, growing efficiency of the agricultural sector, full employment of the rural population and improving its living conditions, as well as achieving efficient land use require proper legal support. The main strategic planning documents regulating aspects of sustainable development of rural areas are represented by three groups of political and legal acts regarding their: 1) agricultural development, 2) sustainable development, 3) spatial development. Most research articles cover one of these aspects of facilitating the development of rural areas. The sources demonstrate the lack of comprehensive legal studies covering the issues of sustainable development of rural areas. The present article provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal regulation of facilitating sustainable development of rural areas in each of the aspects mentioned. The methods of comparative analysis and legal hermeneutics applied made it possible to reveal contradictions and gaps in the strategic planning documents. This precludes the possibility of specifying a single conceptual model of legal regulation of sustainable development of rural areas. The authors have considered the internal and external sides of the model of legal regulation, outlined the legal approaches to its formation in modern geopolitical, economic and social conditions. The article identifies the problems of legal support for sustainable development of rural areas and considers ways to solve them.
Highlights
The novelty is based on elaborating an academically defined conceptual model of legal regulation of sustainable development of rural areas, as well as consideration of its internal and external sides
The state program for the integrated development of rural areas adopted in 2019 necessitates the study of the legal support for sustainable development of rural areas from the standpoint of comparative analysis of strategic planning documents regulating the development of agriculture and ensuring food security, sustainable development of rural areas, and spatial development of rural areas in order to specify a conceptual model of legal regulation of sustainable development of rural areas
The relevant sources note that the set of essential features and characteristics of external and internal legal impact on the behavior of participants in public relations through interrelated legal means, methods and approaches aimed at effectively achieving goals and implementing tasks is a model of legal regulation of public relations (Voronina, 2016)
Summary
Russian legal literature addressing the subject of legal support for sustainable development of rural areas includes works by S.A. Bogolyubov, L.A. Bitkova, G.E. Bystrov, G.A. Volkov, B.A. Voronin, E.A. Galinovskaya, S.A. Lipsky and E.L. Minina. To specify a conceptual model of legal regulation for ensuring sustainable development of rural areas, certain scientific and methodological approaches published in foreign literature should be taken into account (Baldanov, Kiminami and Furuzawa, 2019; Chetvertakov and Chetvertakova, 2018; Kondolskaya, Vasilieva and Parsova, 2019; Kuzminov, Gokhberg, Thurner and Khabirova, 2018; Litvinenko, Solovykh, Smirnova, Kiyanova and Mironova, 2019; Loginova and Strokov, 2019)
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