Conceptual foundations of improvement of legislation on therapeutic and health areas and resorts

The most recent amendments to land and environmental legislations connected with exempting therapeutic and health areas and resorts from the list of Protected Areas have significantly diminished the legal regime of their regulation. Recent legislative initiatives developed in the absence of an official concept (strategy) of a state policy of resort business development and without taking into account the importance of these areas will result in significant deterioration of their protection and safety. The Resorts Classification Abandonment will lead to abolishing the existing legislative and regulatory basis in this sphere of regional and municipal regulation. To increase the efficiency of exploiting resort areas in Russia and to provide their protection and safety it is necessary to improve legal regulation of the whole complex of social relations in the resort sphere that should be based on scientifically grounded concept-oriented foundations and, in the first place, on the provisions of sustainable development This is significantly important to provide sustainable development of therapeutic and health areas and resorts that is aimed at achieving the balance and reconciliation of mainly adverse economic, social and environmental interests and requirements that also take into account climate and natural peculiarities of these areas. The most promising for therapeutic and health areas and resorts is a landscape approach, because these areas are mainly unique landscapes with therapeutic natural resources. Despite the fact that in the Russian Federation there is no any landscape legislation, the application of the landscape approach as a means of territorial planning for the development of such areas is of special importance because it allows to, first, evaluate the area in accordance with its features and the condition of the landscape and, then, to make development and other decisions. The ecosystem approach developed within the framework of the doctrine of environmental law is not less important for improving legislation with regard to exploitation and protection of natural therapeutic resources, therapeutic and health areas and resorts. The improvement of legal regulation of relations in this sphere on the basis of these fundamental approaches should be implemented by means of a package principle of social legislation development with regard to therapeutic and health areas and resorts in accordance with the rules of related legislation, namely, sanitary epidemiological legislation, urban planning legislation and other branches of law

natural therapeutic resources, therapeutic and health areas, resorts, resort business, ecological safety, environmental protection, nature management

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