The growing importance of environmental issues nowadays and the conclusions about greately harmful consequences of unsatisfactory environmental management were the reasons
for choosing the given subject for doctoral thesis. To ensure sustainable development it is necessary to lpook for new solutions to achieve balance between the economic development
and nature conservation. Examining contradictions between the public right to live in a favourable environment and the owner’s rights to gain benefit from his property, the author has considered theconnection between these contradictions and the concept of sustainable development. Sustainable development is the aim of the environmental law that any country of the world, including Latvia has to strive for. The concept of sustainable development is as a framework within which the contradictions between the forest ownership and the right to a favourable environment have been solved.
In spite of the fact that the right to a favourable environment is one of the human rights, legislative provisions do not reveal the content of these rights and therefore there are different approaches to comprehending and explaining these rights.
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