Māris kļaviņŠ, azamat azizov, JĀnis zaļoksnis environment, pollution, development: the case of uzbekistan

 11.1.2.  Law and environmental science
Environ mental science and environ mental law each has its 
own  specific  tasks.  Environ mental  science  explains  and  forms 
understanding about the processes taking place in the natural 
environ ment, interaction going on among the elements of nature 
and between humans and the natural environ ment. By contrast, 
the task of the law is to regulate social relations for the purpose of 
protecting and improving the environ ment and to solve the related 
disputes. Although the environ mental science and law are quite dif-
ferent areas, they are at the same time closely related. Regulation of 
social relations in such a way that human activity would not have 
any destructive environ mental impact is possible only if both the 
legislature and general public have an understanding of the pro-
cesses in the environ ment and their causes, as well as of the impact 
of various human activities on the environ ment. If the knowledge 
of environ mental science was not taken into account in drafting 
environ mental legal provisions, it would be impossible to achieve 
the goals of environ mental law. Consequently, such a normative 
regulation  would  have  to  be  regarded  as  an  ineffective  means  of 
environ mental protection. Environ mental science, in turn, without 
binding environ mental protection regulations, would not have the 
tool for transforming the behaviour of society and directing it into a 
more environ ment-friendly direction.