The paper defines a heuristic task to formulate and approve methodological provisions on the system diagnostics and monitoring of the socio-economic and tourist potential of peripheral territories in the regions which are the basis for planning and implementing spatial and economic transformations. This area of scientific and methodological research and development is relevant because of the need for searching reserves for the advancement of territories based on the inventory taking and the fullest use of available resource opportunities. In this regard, the article has improved the organizational and methodological approaches to conduct monitoring as a part of a comprehensive system diagnostics of peripheral territories of the region based on analytical criteria for socio-economic and tourist potential. The authors formulated a semantic and economic interpretation of the findings and outlined the prospects for using them when forming socio-economic development policy of regions and their economy sectors. The scientific novelty of the present article consists in development of elements of system research and diagnostic methodology with respect to development potential of peripheral areas, based on the analysis of the socio-economic and tourism factors. The combination of results and recommendations represents a contribution to the scientific substantiation of spatial and sectoral analysis.

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The research of a condition of peripheral territories is of special interest within formation of a spatial paradigm of development of regional social and economic system. Differentiation of level of social and economic development of peripheral territories is natural process and is subject to complex studying for formation of adequate instruments of management within spatial social and economic policy. In article special attention is paid to formation of system and diagnostic approach for identification of level of social and economic development of territories on the basis of the composite indicator and also to justification and calculation of indicators of unevenness of development of peripheral territories.

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The need to update and develop new provisions of the policy of regional social and economic development as a centre-peripheral system is determined by the impossibility to ensure balanced social and economic development and smooth spatial development of central and peripheral territories only within the framework of the long-term strategy and programmes of social and economic development. The factor of economic space, its qualitative characteristics, as well as life-affirming properties in the context of the transition to the post-industrial paradigm of economic dynamics began to perform a much larger range of functions than just a topographic placement of economic agents within the framework of the concept of physical and metric use of elements of space. This circumstance can no longer be ignored in the framework of regulating interterritorial proportions and developing adequate approaches ensuring the equal spatial and economic development of the relevant centre-peripheral systems. The inclusion of the center-periphery conditions into the processes of forming and implementing the regional social and economic policy makes it necessary to look at the problems and order of regional strategic targeting from another point of view. This process, i.e. the process of strategy development, as well as the resulting strategic document of regional perspective development, is quintessential of the general philosophy and ideological concept of development of the region taking into account its spatial position, specialization of economy and specificity of the center-peripheral architecture within the region. The article justifies the relevance of developing new approaches to the formation of a strategy of regional spatial development for the territories of the central-peripheral type or agricultural and industrial regions. It details the principles of strategy development, the recommended diagnostic procedures used in the development of the strategy document, as well as the technological routing of the strategy development process and its key components. The presented scientific results have practical value within the implementation of the policy of spatial development of agricultural and industrial regions.