Ecological Security and Regulation of Utilization of Natural Resources

• Authors: Pranevičienė, Birutė , Meškys, Linas

Abstracts

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The article presents the concept of ecological security and it’s relation with the utilization of natural resources. Ecologicalsecurity has become equally important with military security, economic security, political security, and national security. Seriousenvironmental challenges arise on global and local levels, especially created by excessively exploiting natural resources and causingenvironmental risks, therefore, in the regulation of utilization of natural resources ecological security becomes an important issue.The first part of the article presents the essence and importance of ecological security. Ecological security transcend nationalborders, various aspects of the utilization and protection of natural resources are regulated by the international and regionallegal acts. The condition and quality of air, water, land, flora, fauna, etc, do not depend only on one particular State, but onthe Global community. Therefore ecological security issues are regulated on the international level. In the second part of the articlethe review of the international and regional legal regulation that defines the requirements for the utilisation and conservationof natural resources is presented. Declarations of the United Nations provided a framework for development of environmental law,which aims to find the right balance between states’ rights and obligations in the utilization of natural resources. Types of naturalresources and emerging threats for ecological security while utilization of these natural resources are presented in the third partof the article. The main natural resources which utilization is related with ecological security are: oil, gas, water resources, subsoilresources, mineral resources, forest resources, fish stocks, energy resources. The rational use of natural resources means the useof resource making it possible for current and future generations to achieve the common good, but within the permissible limitsof environmental impact.

Keywords

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ecological security; Natural resources; Environment; utilization of natural resources

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Policji w Szczytnie
• Journal: Internal Security
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6(1)
• Pages: 117-128

Contributors

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Pranevičienė, Birutė

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Meškys, Linas

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/20805268.1122419