The Methodological Provision of Integral Assessment of the Components of Sustainable Development of the Regions of Ukraine (Example of the Ecological Component)
Authors:   O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Kyzym Mykola O. , Khaustova Viktoriia Ye. ,   Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine, Bielikova Nadiia V. ,   Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine, Kozyrieva Olena V. ,   National Pharmaceutical University
Published: August 2022

Sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine depends on the harmonious combination of its three constituents – economic, ecological and social. The economic component of sustainable development should function taking into account social and ecological aspects, which contributes to the awareness of the need for a balanced attitude to the environment and allows to implement the right of every inhabitant of a region to a high quality of life. According to the triune conception of sustainable development, within the framework of which methodological provision should be built for assessing the components of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine, the substantiation of priorities and directions for provisioning socioeconomic regional development takes into account the provision of human needs in a clean environment. Based on this, economic activities that harm the environment should be either limited or modernized based on the introduction of clean and energy-efficient technologies. The article is aimed at substantiating the methodological provision for the integral assessment of the components of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine and its practical testing on the example of atmospheric air as component of the ecological constituent of regional development. The methodological provision for the integral assessment of the components of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine is substantiated, which involves the implementation of the following successive stages: allocation of components of sustainable development of the region (economic, social, and ecological); determination of the component composition of each constituent; substantiation of the list of partial indicators, on the basis of which the characterization of certain components of each constituent of sustainable development is provided; integral assessment of the state of a particular component within each constituent of sustainable regional development. The implementation of the proposed methodological provision in practice on the example of the ecological constituent of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine and its components – the atmospheric air of the regions – is considered. It is proved that the proposed methodological provision for the integral assessment of the components of sustainable development of the regions of Ukraine, which involves the use of the entropy method for the computing of integral indicators, allows to assess the state of certain components within terms of each constituent of sustainable regional development. Recommendations for the regions of Ukraine on the organization of monitoring and improving the quality of atmospheric air are provided.