Current legal issues of digitalization of environmental protection: a view from Russia

Abstract

The article deals with the generally accepted category of digitalization with respectto the goals and objectives of legal protection of the environment. In terms of theRussian legislation and the scientific doctrine, it is proved that public authoritiespay the main attention to economic and technologic al aspects of digitalization,which does not meet the basic environmental needs of the modern state and society.The authors propose a classification of the main digitalization areas ofenvironmental protection, including the industry, agriculture, transport, wastemanagement, organization of environmental monitoring, etc. They note that, despiteall its obvious advantages, digitalization also poses a particular threat to theenvironment, which requires a range of preventive measures. Since national legalsystems pay now insufficient attention to the regulation of the use of digitaltechnologies in the area of environmental protection, the authors propose a rangeof measures to develop the national environmental legislation