The criteria to Ensure Sustainable Development of Administrative Units

Abstract

The article highlights issues concerning criteria for ensuring sustainable development of administrative units. The emphasis is placed on ensuring sustainable development of administrative units through the system for managing these territorial divisions. The author has investigated all the components of the system for managing administrative units: objects and subjects of management as well as the criteria for ensuring sustainable development of administrative units. On the basis of the methodological analysis and thorough analysis of the domestic legislation, it is pointed out that there is no unified approach to identifying criteria for ensuring sustainable development of administrative units. First, the essence of the concept “criteria” is studied, after which the author’s definition of this category is given, and a broader interpretation of the concept “criteria for ensuring sustainable development of administrative units” is presented. As a result of the research the principles, characteristics, and conditions for ensuring sustainable development of administrative units have been determined. The author has singled out six groups of criteria, on the basis of which it is possible to make a comprehensive assessment of the totality of attributes of sustainable development of administrative units for each group.

Keywords

• sustainable development of a region
• management of sustainable development
• scientific idea of sustainable development in managing administrative units