Economic and legal mechanisms for effective use of land resources under the conditions of sustainable development in Ukraine
Open Access
- 30 July 2018
- journal article
- Published by LLC CPC Business Perspectives in Environmental Economics
- Vol. 9 (3), 42-50
- https://doi.org/10.21511/ee.09(3).2018.05
Abstract
Sustainable society development distinctly entails the issues of sustainable use of land and especially soils, which are the place and condition of human activity, the means of production that provide absolute value, and a unique natural resource. Ukraine possesses nine percent of the world’s black soil (chernozem) resources, which necessitates the development of sufficient economic and legal mechanisms for their effective use in ensuring food security within the country and worldwide, increasing the export potential of Ukraine subject to the soil quality restoration, and determines the scope of this work. The land reform in Ukraine as a component of economic reform has led to a significant deterioration of agricultural land, loss of humus from soils, their degradation, and other negative consequences threatening the country’s economic security and generating socio-economic and demographic crisis phenomena, especially in rural areas. Therefore, the study has identified priorities and has proposed the use of contractual mechanisms in the field of sustainable socio-economic use of land resources. The authors applied an integrated approach to the analysis of sustainable land use issues to achieve the study objective. This led to the use of a wide range of methodological tools, in particular, the dialectical method, the formal logical method, the logical legal method and the methods of analysis, synthesis and comparison. Defined provisions that determine the economic and legal mechanism of land use and should be ensured in the process of sustainable development: meeting the needs of landowners and other persons, including the priority needs – environmental and food security; an increase in the area of land not involved in the economic turnover, the adoption of measures aimed at the preservation and restoration of agricultural land, in particular compliance with the requirements for crop rotation, and, in some cases, their conservation; introduction of contractual relations in the field of land use.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Classification of farmland ownership fragmentation as a cause of land degradation: A review on typology, consequences, and remediesLand Use Policy, 2016
- The Farmland Rental Paradox: Extreme land ownership fragmentation as a new form of land degradationLand Use Policy, 2014
- Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcityProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011
- Interacting agents, spatial externalities and the evolution of residential land use patternsJournal of Economic Geography, 2002
- Title Assurance and Incentives for Efficient Land UseEuropean Journal of Law and Economics, 1998