RESOURCE SAVING MANAGEMENT IN THE AGRI-FOOD SPHERE: INNOVATION OF PRODUCTION, ECOLOGIZATION OF LAND USE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS

The article considers land taxation as one of the tools to ensure the sustainable development of rural areas in the context of decentralization. Included land tax and rent for land plots of state and communal property and a single tax for agricultural producers as land tax payments has been proposed. It was found that the land fee is the second-largest source of tax revenues to local budgets. It was revealed that during 2009–2020 there is a tendency to increase revenues from land fees to local budgets of Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on the fact that there is an increase in rent payments by legal entities and individuals in parallel with a decrease in its share in the payment for land, which is caused by an increase in land tax revenues during the analyzed period by 4.5 times. It was found that the largest amounts of revenues from land fees are payments from legal entities (86–88 % of the total revenues). It was found that the number of revenues from land tax and rent for land plots of state and communal property paid by individuals increased 4.5 times, and the number of revenues from similar taxes from legal entities increased 3.6 times. As a result of the study, attention is focused on the fact that since 2015 the payment for land has been transferred from the status of a national tax to a local one. It is proved that to tax the regulation of agricultural land use and promotes the development of agriculture and rural areas in 1998, a fixed agricultural tax was introduced. It was found that the number of receipts of the single tax paid by agricultural producers in 2015 increased 17 times compared to 2014. The sharp increase is caused by the introduction of the annual indexation of the tax base for agricultural enterprises, and a threefold increase in tax rates is justified. To achieve the goals of sustainable development of rural areas, it is proposed to carry out such measures as the application of increasing coefficients for irrational use of agricultural lands, provision of benefits for organic agricultural producers, implementation of the full inventory of agricultural lands, improvement of normative monetary valuation of land use for land and/or the single tax of the fourth group for the implementation of measures for the protection and reproduction of land resources, which will increase employment in rural areas, overcome poverty, develop social infrastructure, ensure the livelihood of rural residents, food, economic and environmental security, reduce destructive effects on the environment, protection and reproduction of natural resource potential.

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Land use of (peasant) farms in the system tools for sustainable development of rural areas

Economy and ecology of territorial educations ◽

10.23947/2413-1474-2019-3-2-72-85 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 72-82

Author(s):

A. S. Tarasov ◽

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S. A. Tarasov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Rural Areas

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Analysis of Land-Use Change between 2012–2018 in Europe in Terms of Sustainable Development

Land ◽

10.3390/land9020046 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 46 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Piotr Gibas ◽

Agnieszka Majorek

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Small Towns ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Urban Centers ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Almost All

This article presents methodology of land use change assessment in the context of sustainable development and the results of its application based on the transformations that occurred in individual areas of Europe in the years 2012–2018. This method is based on data from the CORINE (CO-oRdination of INformation on Environment) Land Cover program) and local government units presenting the degree of urbanization (DEGURBA). The transformations taking place in space were evaluated and reduced to economic, social, and environmental dimensions. We then analyzed the results in terms of space (covering almost all of Europe) and in terms of division (large cities, small towns, suburbs, and rural areas). Results indicate that development of the economic dimension most often takes place at the expense of natural resources. It was also determined that the higher the population density, the greater the sustainable development differentiation level in the analyzed dimensions, of which the social dimension was characterized by the lowest differentiation and the economic dimension was highest. The development of rural areas was found to be less sustainable than large urban centers. Interpretation of the results also leads to the conclusion that areas of Europe are very diverse in terms of sustainable development. However, the method itself, despite the imperfections observed by the authors, may be used in further or similar studies.

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Human carrying capacity estimation in Brazilian Amazonia as a basis for sustainable development

Environmental Conservation ◽

10.1017/s0376892997000350 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 271-282 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Energy Use ◽

Production Systems ◽

Environmental Services ◽

Development Scenarios ◽

Land Use Decisions ◽

Productive Systems

Sustainable development requires that population and consumption remain within the limits of carrying capacity, while preventing a decline in the carrying capacity of an area requires that productive systems implanted through development be sustainable. Zoning can be a valuable tool in influencing land-use decisions, but we cannot expect government decrees to be capable of causing the landscape to evolve toward the sustainable patterns which have been recommended through zoning. A prerequisite for influencing land-use change is understanding the social processes involved in land-use decisions, beginning with deforestation dynamics. Work to estimate carrying capacity needs to embrace the wide variety of production systems used and contemplated for Amazonia and to be able to interpret this information at scales ranging from local communities to the region as a whole. This will require not only studies of different land-use systems in rural areas, but also integration with studies of energy use and support limits of urban populations. Risks of environmental impacts must be quantified under different development scenarios, and limits of acceptable risk identified and integrated into analyses of carrying capacity.Tapping the value of environmental services of standing forest represents a promising means of sustaining Amazonia's population over the long term, but numerous obstacles exist. These include halting deforestation before opportunities are lost and supporting the population in non-damaging ways while the institutional groundwork is laid for using the environmental services involved. Research is needed to quantify the magnitude of services and the appropriate monetary value per unit of service. Diplomatic agreement must be reached on these values, which can be expected to be quite different from estimates of the 'true' values based on research. A series of social arrangements must be proposed and implemented if the value derived from environmental services is to fulfil its dual role of maintaining both the forest and the human population in Amazonia.

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Assessment of Social-Economic Risk of Chinese Dual Land Use System Using Fuzzy AHP

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10072451 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 2451 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Hai-Min Lyu ◽

Yong-Xia Wu ◽

Jack Shen ◽

An-Nan Zhou

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Development ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Social Economic ◽

Fuzzy Ahp ◽

Economic Risk ◽

Building Collapse ◽

Application Procedure ◽

Land Use System

The Chinese dual land use system (DLUS) has played a crucial role in the industrialization of China since 1950s. However, this dual system caused/causes obstacles in urban development under the new market economic conditions. This paper presents an approach to assess the social-economic risks during urban development in China by integrating the strategic environment assessment (SEA) principle into the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. In the proposed approach, SEA principles are set as the influencing factors in AHP. Fuzzy AHP is used to assess the relative importance degree of the six principles in SEA. To illustrate the application procedure of the proposed approach, a building collapse incident in Wenzhou is used as a case for the risk analysis. The assessment results show that the index of the manage system has the greatest importance to social-economic risk. The principle of sustainable development (A) and monitoring measures (E) have more importance than the other principles in SEA. It can be concluded that the DLUS in the market management of China may be responsible for building collapse incidents in rural areas. It is suggested that the principles of sustainable development and monitoring measures in SEA should be strictly implemented during urbanization, and it is recommended that the government establish a unified management system and ensure the effective implementation of sustainable urbanization.

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Use of Land Use Change Analysis between 2012–2018 to Assessment of Sustainable Development in Europe

10.20944/preprints201912.0251.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Piotr Gibas ◽

Agnieszka Majorek

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Functional System ◽

Small Towns ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Change Analysis ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

The Sustainable Development

The article presents the author's method of land use change assessment in the context of sustainable development and the results of its application based on the transformations that occurred in individual areas of Europe in the years 2012–2018. This method is based on data from the CORINE Land Cover program and local government units presenting the degree of urbanization (DEGURBA). The authors evaluate the transformations taking place in space, reducing them to economic, social and environmental dimensions. They then analyse the results in terms of space (covering the entire Europe) and in terms of division into: large cities, small towns as well as suburbs and rural areas. It has been shown that: development of the economic dimension most often takes place at the expense of natural resources; the higher the population density and more important function in the functional system of a given country, the greater the sustainable development differentiation level in the analysed dimensions, of which the social dimension is characterized by the lowest differentiation and the economic dimension is the highest; development of rural areas is less sustainable than in case of large urban centres. The result interpretation also leads to the conclusion that the areas of Europe are very diverse in terms of sustainable development. However, the method itself, despite the imperfections observed by the authors, may be used in further or similar studies.

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Development of entrepreneurship in valuable natural rural areas

ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE ◽

10.3280/ecag2019-003010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 753-770

Author(s):

Grzegorz Slusarza ◽

Marek Cierpial-Wolan

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Labour Market ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Border Region ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Nature Protection ◽

Synthetic Indicators ◽

Linkage Method ◽

Endogenous Potential ◽

Urbanized Region

The values of the natural environment in the subject literature are commonly indicated as an asset conducive to development shaping the competitiveness of areas with such values. The paper attempts to assess the use of endogenous potential of such areas in shaping the multifunctional, sustainable development of rural areas that have such qualities. In particular, the aim was to check to what extent the sme sector, dominating in the economic structure of rural areas, solves the key problem of labour market imbalance and population migration in environmentally valuable areas. The area of detailed research is Podkarpacie, the Polish region considered as a peripheral, border region, the least urbanized region with the highest share of areas covered by various forms of nature protection and forestation, with one of the lowest gdp per capita indicator in the country. For the purpose of implementing the research assumptions, a taxonomic unit (using the complete linkage method) consisting of powiats with the highest concentration of features characteristic for rural areas of high natural values was separated. Synthetic indicators calculated on the basis of the Hellwig taxonomic development pattern method and a positional method using Weber's median were used to assess the diversity of entrepreneurship level. The research confirmed that the non-agricultural economic activity sector is less developed in areas of high natural value. Despite positive developments in the enterprise sector, their potential is too weak an economic base for addressing unsustainable labour market problems, as evidenced by high unemployment and a high negative migration balance. This limits the use of the endogenous potential of these areas and is not conducive to the concept of multifunctional, sustainable development. Migration poses a threat to the depopulation of these areas with all the negative consequences associated with such processes. This is a challenge for the studied areas and regional policy.

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Renewable Energy in the East African Communitys and its Role in Sustainable Development

10.31132/2412-5717-2018-42-1-25-38 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 25-38

Author(s):

Liudmila Kalinichenko

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Renewable Energy ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Security Policy ◽

Private Investment ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Solar Pv ◽

East African ◽

Geothermal Resources ◽

East African Community

The article analyses the role of renewable energy in the process of the development of the energy market of the East African Community (EAC) . The author underlines the necessity of finding solutions for such challenges as rising wood and charcoal prices, deforestation, lack of affordable and reliable electricity for a large number of consumers. The study reveals that nowadays the percentage of people with access to modern sources of energy is very low, varying from 7 % in Burundi to 36% in Kenya, although the EAC countries made significant progress in 2000s. Most people in rural areas rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, which leads to ecological and health problems. The author concludes that renewable energy development is considered by the Community as one of the prospective ways for providing energy to remote regions in view of abundant solar, wind and geothermal resources. Their strategy aims at the construction of micro and mini hydro stations, stand-alone solar PV systems and off-grids for rural population usage. The study shows that the investment in off-grid renewables has been steadily rising in recent times . Analyzing grid-connected power generation electricity, the author elicits that it is also based on renewable electricity, which accounts for 65% of the total amount. Kenya, with the highest installed capacity in this sector, is investing mainly in geothermal, solar and wind sources of energy, while the others are focusing on hydropower and solar. For the purpose of attracting private investment, the EAC partner states adopted different regulations, including Feed-in Tariff, zero-VAT and GET FIT Programme. The author assumes that renewable energy financing is one of the main challenges despite the support of different international financial institutions, such as the World Bank, UNIDO, AfDB and others. Nowadays energy efficiency measures are becoming important instruments for the EAC countries resulted in power savings. The other important trend is increasing cooperation among them due to their grid-connected power systems in the East African Power Pool. In this context, in November 2017, the EAC Partner States adopted Energy Security Policy Framework, in order to ensure the sustainable development of their energy sector.

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Integrated Assessment of Socio-Economic Development of Rural Areas, Taking into Account Differences in Population Density

Economy of agricultural and processing enterprises ◽

10.31442/0235-2494-2020-0-10-76-83 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 76-83

Author(s):

N.N. Balashova ◽

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D.A. Korobeynikov ◽

S.A. Popova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Development ◽

Population Density ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Rural Population ◽

Integrated Assessment ◽

Russian Regions ◽

Socio Economic Development

Typologization of rural areas, taking into account differences in population density and level of socio-economic development, is necessary to identify “growth points” and strategic sustainability benchmarks. The method of integrated assessment of the level of socio-economic development of rural territories is proposed, according to which the grouping of Russian regions is carried out. Applying data on rural population density to the results of calculations allowed us to identify 12 typological groups, in the context of which unified recommendations on sustainable development of territories should be formed.

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