Interdisciplinary approach in research on the role of local government units in environmental protection

Abstract

: Environmental protection was placed by the legislator as one of the public tasks performed by local government. Due to the fact that the local government performs decentralized tasks, which are mainly intended to meet the needs of local communities in a given territory, tasks related to the fi eld of environmental protection also serve the needs of residents of communes, poviats and
voivodships in terms of the use of the environment. Therefore, the type and nature of these tasks will be adapted to the role and specialization of individual local government units. Local government units perform tasks stipulated in the existing legislation. They are also obliged to use instruments related to planning and strategic documents that take account of statutory environmental protection assumptions. In order to achieve higher effectiveness in the scope of environmental protection, local government units may take actions that facilitate the use of techniques and methods for environmental management and use quality management tools.