Law. Human. Environment

The genesis of scientific thought regarding the place of use of natural resources in the system of natural resources law is investigated in the article. Revealed that the initial research scientists and lawyers (50’s –70’s of the XX century) were devoted to problems of legal regulation of the use of certain types of natural resources (land, water, etc.). Geƫng research of legal regulation of natural resources based integration approach was the 70’s–80’s of the XX century. It has been determined that the concept of the right to use natural resources has traditionally been considered in the context of legal relations, subjective law (environmental authority) and objective law (legal institute), in the environmental legal literature. As a legal institute, the right to use natural resources is an institution of natural resource law, within which two sub-institutes should be distinguished: the rights of general and special use of natural resources, which differ in nature, content, subject and object composition and other features. Argued that the main principle of natural resources – is ecologically line of human behavior, due to its self-consciousness about the problem of limited natural resources and space activity. Human ecological ethics is the basic principle of using natural resources.

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