Observation and Protection of Citizens’ Environmental Rights in a Coal Mining Region

Abstract

Kemerovo region is one of the territories richest in coal deposits. Kuznetsky coal basin is one of the largest coal basins in the world. Constant increase in mining of that natural treasure has an impact on the ecological well-being of the region. For that reason, current conditions of Russian economy make the issues concerning social responsibility of industrial enterprises for sustainable social and economic development of the territory in the mining region especially important. Besides, at present moment ideological paradigms of the technology aimed at dealing with ecological issues are gaining more and more influence on problem solving in the process of production upgrade, where important role is given to protection and preservation of environment as well as observation and protection of citizens’ environmental rights.

Environmental security in the international security system: definition problems

“…The paradigm shift in economic development that accompanied the transition from an agrarian economy to the industrial revolution (1700s), accordingly the transition of the national economy to a new technological system, and the change in the organization of industrial and agricultural production created the preconditions for exacerbating of old and emerging environmental problems of artificial nature. Thus, the fight against harmful emissions into the air, which began in England in the XIII century, continues to this day [52]. During the XIX century.…”