A Conceptual Approach to the Management of Sustainable Development at the Local Level as a Basis for the Integration of Spatial and Regional Development

Abstract

The article discusses approaches to understanding economic development in general and sustainable development, which is the basis of the modern understanding of the concept of local economic development.The list of factors affecting the realization of the re-gion's sustainable development goals has been improved, which, unlike the existing ones, co-vers economic, ecological, social and political ones, and allows to comprehensively character-ize the mechanism of managing sustainable development at the local level as a basis for the integration of spatial and regional development. A conceptual approach to managing the sus-tainable development of the region in conditions of decentralization has been developed, which is based on the assessment andbalancing of competitive advantages. Special attention needs to be paid to the assessment of sustainable development management and the identification of socio-ecological-economic-political problems. Effective management of the sustainable de-velopment of the region combines interrelated spheres: social, economic, ecological and polit-ical and their effective management at the local level as a basis for the integration of spatial and regional development. The authors proposed a conceptual approach to the formation of subsystems of sustainable development of the region with its components, tasks and functions; modeling of the principles of managing the sustainable development of the region in conditions of decentralization should be carried out based on the main principles.