The content and structure of the notion of ensuring environmental safety

The deterioration of the environment as a result of its pollution, the use of unsustainable consumption and production patterns, the loss of biodiversity, pressure on ecosystems, natural and man-made disasters remains one of the main obstacles to sustainable development in Russia and necessitates the correct definition of ensuring environmental safety. The statement of goals, tasks, choice of means and, of course, the creation of a solid legal platform that will allow to formulate clear permissions and prohibitions in the environmental sphere directly depends on this. A systematic approach, taken as a methodological basis, involves the study of any phenomenon through the understanding of its essence. To this end, the Author has consistently analyzed the concept of “environmental safety”, examined its main elements, disclosed the structure and given the definition of the concept of “ensuring environmental safety”.