MULTIFACTOR APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATIONAL LAND USE METHODOLOGY

The article is devoted to identifying the main unresolved problems of land use in Ukraine. The paper examines the issues of land relations and rational use of land resources reflected in the scientific literature. The authors consider the importance of a methodological approach to the development of land relations and rational land use. The study focuses on the laws of rational land use, formalization and justification of ways to implement them in practice. The article proves that solving the problems of rational land use is a prerequisite for the spatial development of Ukraine and, ultimately, the most important factor in ensuring its sustainable development and improvement of the quality of life and national security. According to the study, the systemic criterion of rational land use is its efficiency. It derives the essential nature of the processes of rational land use, which contains the fundamental points, and substantiates their content. The authors emphasize that the land policy in Ukraine is aimed at improving the economic, environmental and social efficiency of land use, but insufficient attention has been paid to the environmental component. The paper highlights the relevance of developing clear standards for the values of indicators reflecting the environmental efficiency of land use and regulating its environmental aspects in the context of active processes of land degradation in agricultural areas, soil destruction and land pollution. The article shows the importance of solving the complex problem of rational use of land through the development, substantiation and implementation of an organizational and managerial mechanism containing built-in structural elements: economic, environmental, social, production, and regulatory and legal. We conduct a comparative analysis of the market and planned methods and instruments used to regulate land relations. The authors focus on the role of the state and the legal framework in regulating land relations, a differentiated approach to their subjects, and the specifics of the economic model within which rational land use is ensured.