On the role of the state in environmental safety and sustainable development of the Russian Federation
The article examines the issues of ensuring the environmental safety of the Russian Federation, and also analyzes the role of the state in these processes. For Russia, the problem of ensuring environmental safety is extremely relevant due to the need to expand the scope of industrial production in the context of the global environmental crisis. This problem is aggravated even more in connection with the course of our country towards sustainable development, which a priori implies a reduction in the anthropogenic load on the environment. Under these conditions, the role of the state in ensuring environmental safety increases significantly, since it is the state that determines the main directions of environmental activities, establishes legal regulators and organizational mechanisms for its implementation, and allocates material and financial resources for the implementation of specific activities. The mechanism for ensuring environmental safety, which is being formed in Russia, is considered by the authors not within the framework of the traditional, i.e. organizational-legal approach, but within the framework of an integrated approach, involving its consideration in the unity of three components: cultural, economic-technological and legal. Moreover, the cultural component, according to the authors, is fundamental in this mechanism, since it reflects the environmental consciousness of citizens, the level of development of which determines the success of the state environmental policy.