Transformation of the land resources potential of the cities in the Western region of Ukraine

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of scientific approaches to interpreting the term ‘land resources potential’. It suggests the definition ‘land resources potential of administrative unit’, which stands for a total ability of available land resources to provide the interests of the local community in social, economic, and territorial development, to conserve the landscape, ecological, historical, and architectural features of the area. The paper emphasizes that starting from June 1, 2016, StateGeoCadastre of Ukraine does not conduct statistical reporting on quantitative accounting of lands, therefore it causes the risks in the sphere of transparent and rational use. On the basis of 2010-2016 land statistical reporting, the article describes the specifics and tendencies of land resources transformation in the Western cities of Ukraine according to the main types of land use purposes. The structural transformations of the land fund in such cities are determined to be conditioned by the peculiarities of economic activity, its diversification and improvement of its economic activity based on the attraction of capital investments. The unified requirements and administrative procedures are suggested to be established on the legislative level regarding: boundaries identification of settled areas and united territorial communities under their jurisdiction; conducting the total land inventory within administrative divisions; qualitative functioning of e-info interaction among the State land cadaster, urban cadaster, the State Registration of Immovable Property Corporeal Rights, registers (lists) of the objects of cultural heritage, ecological and other state cadasters, registers and databases; actualization of the documentation on spatial planning on unique infoDigital platform ‘Land planning’; renewing of systematic proceeding of state statistical reporting on quantitative land registration, etc.