Modern agricultural landscapes produce multiple ecosystem services. Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes have social, economic, and environmental value—providing a wide array of benefits to society. Absence of scientifically based and practically tested methodologies of identification, mapping, and evaluation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes hamper integration of its values in the current system of land use planning. The value of ecosystem services is calculated for the case study territory located within the administrative borders of Kolomak Territorial Community in Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region (Ukraine). The highest estimated value among non-market ecosystem services is carbon storage service, and among market services—food production. The baseline scenario of land use (business as usual) is compared with two alternative scenarios (Scenario 1. Land reclamation scenario; Scenario 2. Land protection and bioenergy production scenario). Designing of an integrated production system in the forest agro-landscape, which combines multiple ecosystem services, allows us to attain maximum results in terms of value. Amelioration of agricultural landscape through establishing a system of protective forest shelterbelts allows society to increase the total value of ecosystem services, and this is why it should be better integrated into land use planning and land management.

Вирішення проблем сталого розвитку регіонів, екологічної безпеки довкілля, визначення правових відносин щодо землі та іншого нерухомого майна потребують всебічного кадастрового забезпечення. В Україні створюється нова земельно-кадастрова система на основі узаконених прав, яка представлятиме собою єдину державну геоінформаційну систему відомостей про землі, розташовані в межах державного кордону. На цей час вона не містить повних правових, просторових, якісних характеристик про земельні ділянки, як природного ресурсу землі, що не дає змоги встановити всіх обмежень, обтяжень прав під час їх використання. Обґрунтовано потреба удосконалення методичних підходів до формування відомостей у системі Державного земельного кадастру. Через брак повної інформації про землю, відбувається накладання прав одних суб'єктів на права інших в межах однієї земельної ділянки. Перехід до світової практики в частині формування земельної ділянки дасть змогу визначити її як індивідуалізовану частину "землі" зі встановленими межами та сформованими правами щодо органічно поєднаних на ній ресурсів. З огляду на це необхідно шляхом розроблення проектів землеустрою щодо організації і встановлення меж територій природно-заповідного фонду та іншого природоохоронного призначення, оздоровчого, рекреаційного, історико-культурного, лісогосподарського призначення, земель водного фонду та водоохоронних зон, обмежень у використанні земель та їх режимотвірних об'єктів сформувати відомості інших кадастрів у системі Державного земельного кадастру. Запропонований підхід через визначення, накладання і відображення відомостей про природні ресурси у вигляді окремих шарів на Публічній кадастровій карті дасть змогу сформувати повноту відомостей щодо обмежень у використанні земельних ділянок, удосконалити правові відносин, узгодити інтереси приватних і суспільних потреб, що сприятиме створенню інформативної та багатофункціональної системи Державного земельного кадастру. Нагромадження різноманітних даних у межах однієї системи значно поліпшить адміністрування цих даних та підвищить ефективність територіального використання земельної ділянки.

Transformation of land cover is one of the global ecological problems. It causes fall of land resources productivity and loss of biodiversity of the territory. Important tasks of the ecological policy of Ukraine and Latvia include cease of the processes of land degradation and support for rational land use. However, in these countries differentiation of land cover degradation is not sufficiently studied. Particularly, in Ukraine great attention is paid to degradation of the land cover of agricultural land, while in Latvia there are no approved criteria for classification of land degradation processes. Thus, the goal of the research is to improve the methodical approaches to determination of the degradation factor of such types of land cover as water, agricultural land and forests. Differentiation of the factors of degradation of the studied types of land cover is made according to the following criteria, particularly for agricultural land -by linear erosion and growing of scrubs; for forests -by drying and deforestation; for water -by overgrowing and drying. To achieve the set goal the authors of the research used expert, cartographic, abstract and logical methods. Results of the research are of practical importance both for Ukrainian and for Latvian institutions of environmental protection and management of land use. Application of the presented approach will provide information support and determine measures concerning reclamation of land cover by means of planning of sustainable development of territories at local level.

The research studies the issue of ecological stability of rural territories that is the most important component of the national environmental policy of Ukraine. A special attention is paid to degradation of arable lands as the main ecological problem of land management. On the example of Lviv region, the authors calculated the index of ecological nonconformity of current use of arable lands, proving a considerable excess of permissible ploughing of lands in the region. The carried analysis confirms that no measures were performed concerning land protection, including conservation that in the recent years. In this context it is necessary to improve land resources management on the basis of sustainable development. Integration is considered to be the main principle of land resources management. The research proves that solution of ecological problems of land management requires achievement of a set of coordinated targets concerning development of rural territories, land resources management and national environmental policy based on the principles of suitable development. The targets include: planning of land use outside settled areas on the landscape and ecological basis; land inventory; formation of the land bank of agricultural lands; development and support of alternative kinds of activity on rural area; development of an efficient mechanism to encourage performance of land protection measures; improvement of environmental responsibility of population and development of ecological education. The methodological basis of the research is the concept of sustainable development, which expects support for a continuous character of development in order to meet the current needs along with ensuring the needs of future generations. The fulfilment of the task requires examination of scientific works on the issue of sustainable management of land resources and an ecological component of rural territory development.

The paper describes the current conditions, process, and consequences of the land reform in Ukraine, and goes on to determine their impact on the support for sustainable land management. The research reveals the importance of land development as the main instrument for sustainable land management in Ukraine, which should involve implementation of land policy, organization of rational use and protection of land, land improvement, crop-engineering, and anti-erosion measures. In the present paper, we argue for the measures of sustainable management, which are secured by the development of the programs of land organization, and we present technical and economic reasoning for the use and protection of land in administrative-territorial units, land development projects, as well as environmental and economic arguments for crop rotation and land management, implemented within work projects of land organization at regional, provincial and local levels. Structural instability of the establishment of agrarian formations of a new type, which are basically grounded in the fundamentals of land lease, is caused by a permanent delay on the moratorium for the sale of land parcels by the owners of land shares. It forces most of those owners to engage in economic activity without any pre-existing projects of land organization, which would provide ecologically safe organization of the leased land exploitation. Nowadays, the use of the leased land parcels, and growing of agricultural crops on those parcels, is performed mainly according to the market conjuncture and without any management methods, which would be necessary for securing land protection and maintaining soil fertility.