MODELING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE OBLASTS OF THE CARPATHIAN REGION OF UKRAINE)

Abstract

The paper evaluates the quality of life and living standards of the population using the basic determinants of socio-economic, ecological, and socio-political environments (on the example of the Carpathian region of Ukraine). It expands a set of methodological tools for the analysis of ecological and social determinants' impact on the quality of life based on the complex analysis of the sensitivity of the quality of life (in the form of empirical parameter calculated based on the cost, resources, and innovative development approaches) to the change of the socio-ecological determinants as an integral quality-quantity characteristic of the environment. The results of the research allowed detecting the relationship and nature of joint variability of the quality of life and ecological and social indicators.

Keywords

• quality of life
• carpathian region
• ukraine
• determinants
• environment
• social sphere
• relationship