The textbook provides environmental (resource) rights and obligations of citizens and organizations , basics of environmental protection and natural resources management - organizational, legal and economic mechanisms , legal liability for violations of environmental (resource) legislation . The book contains the basics of legal regulation of the use and protection of land, subsoil, forests, waters, wildlife, the continental shelf, the protection of atmospheric air, the ozone layer of the Earth . For students , Graduate students and professors of higher law, Agricultural and other educational institutions , As well as ,. who carries out legal regulation of environmental protection and rational use of natural resources of Russia for the benefit of its citizens , For a wide range of readers , Interested in this topic.