Monofunctional territory rehabilitation based on a model of cognitive-spatial recovery

The article presents an interdisciplinary research framework aimed at designing a hybrid model to rehabilitate monofunctional territories as an adaptive tool for Ukraine’s post-war spatial recovery. The paper focuses on monofunctional cities and resource-based local communities that have experienced post-industrial decline, war-related destruction, and the erosion of economic and social agency, with the purpose to construct a conceptual foundation, institutional architecture, and a scenario-program model of hybrid rehabilitation, incorporating cognitive, industrial, socio-ecological-economic, medical-genetic, and financial factors. The methodological toolkit includes scenario modelling, clustering, an index-based assessment of learned helplessness syndrome, logic-structural modeling, structural-functional methods for mapping spatial degradation profiles, and indicative evaluation of communities’ financial capacity. The authors develop the typology of crisis scenarios, along with forecast hybrid rehabilitation models for each of the seven macro-regional zones, reflecting region-specific industrial, cognitive, socio-environmental, and financial development priorities. Special attention is paid to mechanisms for overcoming intergenerational cognitive inertia, implementing medical-genetic counselling, adapting rotational employment models, promoting green industrialisation, cognitive resocialisation, and scenario-based financing of rehabilitation processes. The paper proposes structural and conceptual approaches to integrating the model into systems of spatial planning, regional policy, public finance, and cognitive support for communities. It is demonstrated that the model’s practical implementation may help reduce the risks of learned helplessness, enhance social agency, restore spatial functionality, and improve the resilience of macro-zones to multifactorial challenges. The findings lay a foundation for further research in scenario planning, social economics, cognitive governance, and state spatial policy under conditions of post-crisis transformation.