Environmental Disaster in the Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain in the Context of Global Climate Change: Legal Approaches and Methods to Decrease the Gravity of the Problem

Abstract

Based on the specific practical material related to one of the regions of Russia, the article examines the negative consequences for the environment and population caused by the global climate change. Mitigation and adaptation are two models of the national environmental policy which can be considered as the countermeasures. There are more possibilities to mitigate the consequences of climate change at the international and national levels; as well the governmental authorities of the federal entities are able to implement effectively the adaptation strategies. The solution of this task will require some efforts from the representatives of the whole scientific society, from biological and technical sciences to social and humanitarian ones. It can be explained by the complexity of this new challenge to the humankind of XXI century, which can be met only if the public morality is changed and the environmental ignorance is eliminated. With regard to Russia it is urgently required to develop new approaches to the organization of the economic mechanism in order to counteract the consequences of climate change, to reform the existing model of federalism, to develop new concepts and methods to compensate for any damages caused by global climate change, to keep the development of the theory of environmental disaster zones.