Research methodology of the concept of “environmental and legal culture” as a phenomenon in the theory of Russian environmental law

Saint Petersburg State University, Department of the Legal Protection of Environment of the Law Faculty, Saint Petersburg, Russia

¹ Corresponding author: klyukanova.l@yandex.ru

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to formulate the concept of “environmental and legal culture”, to identify its main properties and characteristics, to designate the methodological apparatus of its research; to substantiate the importance of an integrated approach and an axiological research method. The object of the research is the “environmental and legal culture” itself, and the subject is its structure, functions and processes of its objectification. Structural, functional, and comparative research methods became the methodological basis. The research results: the concept of “environmental culture”, “environmental and legal culture” was formulated; the necessity of applying an integrated approach and an axiological method to the study of the phenomenon of “environmental and legal culture” was substantiated; the interrelation of legal awareness, education and enlightenment, legal technique and political guidelines of the Concept of sustainable development as characteristics of the concept of “environmental and legal culture” and the phenomena that predetermine and characterize it, are revealed. The authors emphasize that the “environmental and legal culture” is formed primarily on the basis of the norms of Environmental law, and not on the entire array of humanitarian and natural science knowledge about the environment as a whole. The novelty of the work is determined by the approach itself to substantiating the requirement for an integrated approach and an axiological method to study the content of the concept of “environmental and legal culture”.