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The article deals with the features of management of environmental processes and the specifics of the law enforcement of environmental standards in the resource-producing region in the context of modern socio-economic transformations. The solution of environmental safety problems is due to the presence of an integrated approach to the management of legal entities involved in production and information processes in the region. The position is substantiated an integrated approach, including mechanisms for managing environmental and social processes should be formalized in a regional environmental doctrine with an effective and relevant regulatory framework. The key principle of such a regulatory system is the ability to take into account and coordinate the main trends of global processes, regulatory requirements and development goals of the state, as well as the characteristics of the region and the needs of its inhabitants. The issues of law enforcement of environmental standards and their impact on the ecosystem in order to cause the least harm to environment, health and genetic fund of person (society), levelling its consequences are considered. The need to take into account the sociocultural characteristics and value orientations of the inhabitants of the region when developing regulatory practices is emphasized. It is substantiated the regional environmental doctrine with relevant normative content will be a system-forming factor ensures the practical implementation of mechanisms for effective regulation of the activities of subsoil use entities and the development of safe infrastructure in theresource-producing region.

Since the 1990s Madagascar has adopted a territorial-based biodiversity conservation policy. The institutional innovation of community-based resource management now coexists with the older expansionist protected areas model. Recent legislation has given the government the authority to enter into contractual arrangements with communities for the management of forests resources. This national environmental policy carries with it a set of regulations that has repercussions not only on physical spaces but also on access to and control of resources and their marketing. These regulations have generated conflicts over access to and use rights of natural resources. Our study of two rural territories in the Betsileo area examines these newly configured spaces of conservation associated with the transfer of renewable natural resource management (TGRNR) institutions to the western slope of the forest corridor. This paper explores the challenge of a community based forest management. The environmental regulations pose restrictions on resource users and their activities in the context of these conservation territories, knowledge systems, and power relations. The responses of local actors are inscribed in new socio-spatial strategies and practices. They raise questions about the territorial dimensions of biodiversity preservation policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]