Sustainable Development as an Objective Reason for the Implementation of Environmental Policy and an Object of Managerial Influence
Authors:   West Ukrainian National University, Kryvokulska Nataliia M. , Bohach Yurii A. ,   West Ukrainian National University
Published: January 2025

The article is aimed at substantiating sustainable development as an objective reason for the implementation of environmental policy and an object of managerial influence. The article states that the economic development of Ukraine, without taking into account the principles of placement of productive forces, which are guided by the needs and conditions of social development to ensure its sustainability, has led to the crisis ecological state of our country. This requires building a process of interaction in the «nature – society» system, taking into account the conception of sustainable development, which should be implemented in environmental policy. In the authors’ interpretation of the concept of «environmental policy», the emphasis is placed on the process, systemic, strategic, functional, managerial, instrumental aspects of ensuring the environmental development of the State and on the principles of response and prevention. It is substantiated that in the context of ensuring sustainable development, the role of the regional and local levels of management of its environmental component through managerial activities is increasing. On a specific example, a conclusion is made about the imperfection of the solid waste management system in Ukraine and proposals for its improvement are formed, covering all subsystems of environmental regulation. The shortcomings of the managerial activity of the subject composition, which complement the systemic problems of modern environmental policy, are allocated. Sustainable local development is presented as a set of goal-oriented, synchronous, step-by-step actions that differ from each other in direction, subject and object composition, as well as as integrity that includes the environmental component among others. The Ukrainian State, adhering to world civilizational standards, must provide such conditions for social development in order to ensure its sustainability. One of these conditions is the construction of the process of interaction in the system «nature – man (society)» based on the conception of sustainable development, which, in turn, should be implemented in environmental policy. Decentralization processes, expansion of the range of powers of regional and local authorities, local self-government bodies strengthen the role of regional and local levels of government in ensuring sustainable development. The imperfection of the solid waste management system in Ukraine, verified by a specific example, made it possible to form proposals for improving this system with coverage of all subsystems of environmental regulation. Environmental policy, through which environmental development is ensured, is implemented through the managerial activity of its subjects, and the shortcomings inherent in this activity must be eliminated. Under such conditions, sustainable local development will become a system that is represented by a set of goal-oriented, synchronous, step-by-step actions that differ from each other in direction, subject and object composition, as well as integrity, where the environmental component is of importance.