Liudmyla O. Shashula, Oksana V. Sakal, Nataliia A. Tretiak
Payment for Ecosystem Services in Ukraine: Priority Direction of Revitalization
(original language – Ukrainian)
https://doi.org/10.21272/mer.2019.84.01
The authors of the article are involved in the actualization of the informational and educational campaign on the value of ecosystem services and their assessment in Ukraine. The content of the economic category of public welfare through the prism of ecosystem services, approaches to their classification, assessment and payments are researched. The results of the informational and educational campaign on the value of ecosystem services of Ukraine and the further application of assessment of such services as one of the priority strategic tasks of the country’s environmental policy are analyzed. The terminological, environmental protection and climatic context of state policy in the area of forest ecosystem services in Ukraine is highlighted. It is substantiated that the intensity of nature uses, in particular the use of land resources, forms space in different ways and affects the vulnerability of ecosystems and their stability. It is proved that ecosystem services and land use are directly related, since the intensity of the latter, which causes the formation of spatial transformations, is determined by qualitative and quantitative indicators. Three levels of land use intensity (low, medium, high), which determine changes in the spectrum and quality of ecosystem services are investigated. An economic assessment of ecosystem services in Ukraine are conducted in terms of areas for the following types of land use: agricultural (arable and pasture land), forest and land under bogs. The grouping of regions according to the level of ecosystem transformation and intensity of land use is done. The results of such grouping indicate that the current state of land use governance requires a revision of the existing artificial, unified governance approach. In the future, the activation of the instrument – payment for ecosystem services will increase the level of capitalization and investment attractiveness of both natural assets in general and of land economic assets in particular.
Key words: assessment, welfare, ecosystem, ecosystem service, governance instrument, intensity of land use.
Placed in №2, 2019.
Affiliations:
LIUDMYLA O. SHASHULA, C.Sc. (Economics), Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher, Department of Economic Issues of Land and Forest Resources, Public Institution «Institute of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine»;
OKSANA V. SAKAL, C.Sc. (Economics), Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Department of Economic Issues of Land and Forest Resources, Public Institution «Institute of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development of the National Ac
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