The most pressing theoretical and practical problems related to the study of environmental security were outlined. A brief historical overview of the contributions made by both Russian and foreign scholars that highlights the importance of the methodological, axiological, and praxeological rethinking of human– nature interactions was provided. The results show that the emerging misalignment between the pursuit of economic and technological progress and the increasingly fragile state of the environment entails significant risks and threats to human life as such. From a methodological perspective, in order to investigate the problems of environmental security at the cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary levels of legal science, the systems-thinking-and-activity (STA) method should be involved. The STA method brings into the scholarly and practical legal discourses the importance and necessity of integrating projects, schemes, and regulations of practical activities with their subsequent analysis across various scientific disciplines (sociohuman, natural, and technical) or their synergy. This integrated approach has the potential to improve the development, enforcement, and application of law in the protection of human environmental rights, conservation of the environment, and promotion of the sustainable use of natural resources for long-term support of civilizational progress.
Stepanenko et al. (Thu,) studied this question.