Legal Innovation as a Vector of Development of Environmental Law: Conceptual Approaches

A wide range of national goals and strategic objectives in the field of environmental well-being, low-carbon development, implementation of the green, climate agenda, creation of a high-tech knowledge-intensive resourcesaving economy, achievement of technological sovereignty, digitalization and implementation of digital technologies actualize the application of an innovative approach in the regulation of environmental and related social relations. With regard to the environmental sphere, innovations are considered in the doctrine as the best available technologies, the introduction of which is provided for in strategic planning documents, environmental legislation, and statistical tools of innovation. The article shows the need and prospects for the development of environmental law, which is in close interrelationship with other branches due to its integrative content, the use of methodology of legal (legal) innovation as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge about the processes of emergence, implementation and management of innovations in jurisprudence. Doctrinal approaches of understanding the paradigm of legal innovation not only in the framework of innovation legislation, but also in the sphere of lawmaking, normative and managerial decision-making, functioning of the state mechanism and management are highlighted. The article considers innovation-legal regimes in the context of improvement of state environmental management taking into account the digital transformation of the environmental sphere.