The Criminal Law Aspect of the Violation of Environmental Law in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine

El aspecto penal de la violación del derecho ambiental en el contexto de la agresión armada contra Ucrania

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.37
Keywords: environmental threats, environmental law, environmental crime, armed conflict, criminal law in armed conflicts

Abstract

The objective of the study was to analyze, in a comparative legal framework, violations of environmental law in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine. The research method was a dialectical combination of the proven general and private scientific methods of legal knowledge. They emphasize in the Research Results that scientific advances can be used to solve the serious problems that arise in the legal regulation of criminal liability for environmental crimes in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine, as well as in general processes aimed at improving the environmental situation as a whole. It is concluded that the problems of criminal liability for environmental crimes in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine are managed, as far as doctrine is concerned, in the need to study the problems that currently exist in this area, in order to develop effective means of combating  environmental crimes. In this regard, the optimization of the solution of environmental protection problems as a result of aggression against our State is possible on the basis of inter-State cooperation.

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Author Biographies

Nataliia Barabash, Ivan Franko National University, Leópolis, Ukraine.

Doctor of Philosophie Associal Professor at Departement of Sozial Law Ivan Franko National University of Lwiw, Faculty of Law, Departement of Social Law 14 Sichovykh Striltsiv St., Lviv, 79000, Ukraine.

Igor Paryzkyi, National Academy of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Doctor of Science (PHD), Pro-rector Professor of Marketing, Economics, Management and Administration National Academy of Management, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Eduard Rasiuk, National Academy of Internal Affairs 1, Solomianska Square, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Candidate of science of law Associate Professor, Professor Department of Criminology and criminal enforcement law, National Academy of Internal Affairs 1, Solomianska Square, Kyiv, 03035, Ukraine.

Bohdan Telefanko, Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies C. Z. Grzycki, Lviv, st. Pekarska, Ukraine.

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Law Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies C. Z. Grzycki, Lviv, st. Pekarska,50 Ukraine.

Oleksii Humin, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.

Doctor in Law, Professor Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law, Psychology and Innovative Education, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine.

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2022-07-20
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Barabash, N., Paryzkyi, I., Rasiuk, E., Telefanko, B., & Humin, O. (2022). The Criminal Law Aspect of the Violation of Environmental Law in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine: El aspecto penal de la violación del derecho ambiental en el contexto de la agresión armada contra Ucrania. Political Questions, 40(73), 655-670. https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4073.37
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Vol. 40 No. 73 (2022): Cuestiones Políticas
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Derecho Público

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