European Cooperation (Aug 2016)

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED ASPECTS OF ECOLOGICAL SECURITY OF THE REGION ACCORDING TO THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  • Iryna Babets,
  • Jaroslav Pushak

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 15
pp. 14 – 25

Abstract

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The theoretical aspects of providing the ecological security at the regional level according to the concept of sustainable development were considered in the article. The necessity to study the economic, social and ecological components of sustainable development based on institutional factors was grounded. The structural and functional characteristics of the system of ecological security of the region as a combination of effective institutions, instruments and measures to improve the condition of the environment were outlined. An assessment of the level of the ecological security of the regions of Ukraine on the basis of indicative method was carried out. The regions with high, optimal, low and crisis level of ecological security were determined. The problems of formation of the ecological security in the Lviv region on the basis of institutional factor of the infrastructure development in the field of environmental protection were defined.

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