FEATURES OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF REGIONAL ECOLOGICAL POLICY IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Annotation. State environmental policy can be defined as the activity of public authorities, focused on the formation and development of environmental production / consumption and ecological culture of human life. In this regard, environmental policy is influenced by such factors as: the rate of development of production, economic and social stability, the level of environmental culture of the population, the provision of specialists, the scale of nature use. In the conditions of the development of modern state-building, the role of the state in the formation and implementation of environmental policy is increasing, among the main tasks of which is the stabilization and improvement of the ecological state of the country through the implementation of the state ecological policy in accordance with the integrated approach of socio- economic development of Ukraine to ensure the transition to sustainable development and the introduction of environmentally balanced systems of nature management. The priority of the territorial approach to the implementation of state environmental policy makes it possible to take into account the particularities of each region. In recent years, the implementation of state environmental policy at the regional level has become increasingly important. Different regions of the country have their own special historical, natural, social and economic conditions for the functioning of territories with the whole complex of life processes and the specificity of the impact on the natural environment. The ecological situation in Ukraine, depending on the territorial affiliation, varies both by the severity of the problems and the possibilities of their practical solution. The purpose of state environmental policy should be to create conditions for harmonious, balanced development of society, economy and the environment. In view of this, regional differentiation of management decisions and practical actions in the framework of specific mechanisms of implementation of state environmental policy, functioning of which should be aimed at creating conditions for harmonious and balanced development of the environment, stabilization and improvement of the ecological situation. The policy of effective sustainable development of the region should become the mechanism of state environmental policy at the regional level.