This work highlights a range of problems related to ensuring sustainable development of post-conflict territories, as well as ways to overcome those through smart specialization approach. The influence of military conflict on Luhansk region's economy structure and economy's pace of development had been determined. Capacities of smart specialization as a contemporary tool meant for intensifying innovative development, structural modernization and improving competitiveness of regions had been studied. While researching regional context the current state and structure of the chemical sector, which is region's traditional specialty, had been analyzed and also its SWOT analysis had been conducted. Potential for diversification, innovative and cross-sectoral evolution of the existing chemical business was discovered. We pay attention to chemical production's digitalization horizons and its integration into rapidly growing region's agricultural sector as part of precision farming concept. The suggested agrochemical ecosystem's model facilitates communications between leading stakeholders, increases efficiency of entrepreneurial discovery process, creates new areas of specialization and new leverage for ensuring region's sustainable development.  Keywords: sustainable development, smart specialization, chemical industry, agriculture, ecosystem, precision farming, Luhansk region

In the article, the authors actualize the issues related to the problems of ensuring economic security from the position of growth of global integration processes in the world economy. It is specified that the formation of the global world is connected with the emergence of new global threats in the field of economic security, as exemplified by the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. This creates the need to review some of the negative effects of globalization in order to provide greater control over global processes, making them more conscious, focused on both comprehensive security and sustainable development of countries. In the course of the research, the authors analyze the consequences for the economic activity of countries as result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research draws attention to the pandemic-detected breaches in the economic security of countries related to some aspects of globalization. The results of the carried out research allow to identify the sectors most affected by economic pressure and consider possible directions and tendencies of further economic recovery. It is also assumed that in the future stress tests of all levels of economic security will have to take into account and analyze a wider range of possible scenarios and risks associated with the threat of pandemics and the impact of the related effects on the public interest. Prospect for further research in this direction may be the study on the relationship and possible consequences that arise in the social and political spheres in connection with global threats to economic security.

Some current trends and prospects of the world construction industry development from environmental economics position are presented in article. The increased role of innovations and their influence on the competitiveness of construction company in the context of economic, social and ecological components is analyzed. Reduction of some negative impact of all the types of technological processes of construction on the environment is connected with the growth of innovative opportunities. This research proves the need of overcoming technical and technological lag for the development of the construction industry by the means of introduction of business processes management instruments. Justification of reengineering as an effective way of transformation of the technology of construction production is made. The algorithm of stage-by-stage reengineering of business processes, offered in the article is the instrument of effective introduction of technological innovations in the construction companies according to current ecological requirements.

Метою даної статті є дослідження умов праці на підприємстві та визначення можливих напрямків щодо їх поліпшення в контексті покращення працездатності робітників. Авторами детально розглянуто окремі складові умов праці: санітарно-гігієнічні, естетичні, фізіологічні та соціально-психологічні. Визначено властивості умов праці, які наявно свідчать про вплив умов праці на виробниче середовище, у якому працює робітник, і на самого робітника, на його стан здоров'я, самопочуття та працездатність. Виявлено взаємозалежність і взаємозв'язок елементів умов праці, що також підкреслює доцільність дотримання саме комплексного покращення умов з метою досягнення синергетичного ефекту. Аналізуючи елементи умови праці за ознаками наявності підкріплення їх відповідними регламентуючими документами, запропоновано розподіл умов на нормовані та ненормовані. Визначено, що тільки санітарно-гігієнічні умови праці підлягають нормуванню, й оцінку саме цих умов належить виконувати за допомогою атестаційної комісії. Фізіологічні, естетичні та соціально-психологічні умови праці віднесені до ненормованих через відсутність будь-яких нормативів. що їх регламентують, тому оцінка цих умов здійснюється за допомогою експериментальних, психодіагностичних та інших методів. У статті ставиться акцент на те, що тільки через цілісне вдосконалення та покращення всіх складових умов можна значно підвищити ефективність і продуктивність праці.

This research underlines the growing importance of critical studying the role of globalization in the context of the problem of ensuring human security. In the global open economy, direct changes in the nature of economic activity and social interaction significantly increase the weight and importance of the factors that affect social, political and economic stability. By carrying out an analysis of the data reflecting the results of the social, economic and political consequences of COVID-19, the authors try to provide useful insights into the patterns inherent in the economic, social and political processes. Studying the dynamics of pandemic development allows to examine in more detail the connection between the economy, social security and political stability, paying attention to the nature of social, economic and political processes and the scale of their interdependence. According to the results of the research, the main threats arising from the pandemic in the field of economic, social and political components of national security have been established. It is displayed that the social, economic and political security spheres within the State are interrelated. Due to the relationship between them, the lack of stabilization in one of these areas can generate potential danger and changes of negative nature in other areas. Most of the risks and threats identified by the authors flow out of each other, which makes them also interrelated. In the view of the authors, public expectations as to political and economic interactions in the field of ensuring national and global security require the government to make significant changes and transform its view on important aspects of the organization of social, economic and political life of society, in accordance with global challenges.