ECONOMIC AND LEGAL DIMENSION OF ENSURING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: WORLD EXPERIENCE AND CONCLUSIONS FOR UKRAINE

Abstract

The economic and legal aspects of the world experience in ensuring, restoring and strengthening urban environmental security in the conditions of globalization, social transformations and military impact on the environment are analyzed. The existing normative-legal and economic foundation of the system of environmental security of cities (urban environmental security), formed at the international and European levels, is studied. It is substantiated that the conducted economic and legal analysis of world experience in ensuring urban environmental security can and should be adapted in the process of developing national conceptual, strategic or program documents in the field of management, financing and implementation of measures to normalize the quality of environment and life of citizens in technogenically loaded Ukrainian cities. Proposals were made for the adaptation and using in Ukrainian cities the world experience in restoring the environmental security of cities affected by the military impact. In particular, it is proposed to supplement the EU Program for Financing Environmental Protection and Climate Action for 2022-2027 with a special sub-program for Ukraine "Post-war Environmental Recovery". The authors substantiate the expediency of using the tested tools and expertise of international organizations specified in the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques for the collection, systematization and comprehensive evaluation of information and data on the impact of military conflicts on the environment to develop effective and internationally recognized (certified, standardized) methods for determining the loss and damage caused to Ukraine by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. This will create a normative-legal basis for their recovery and thus contribute to the restoration and strengthening the environmental security of Ukrainian cities.