Ensuring sustainable rural development

Abstract

Working out new management decisions for ensuring rural areas development, standards of life quality and livelihoods of the population is one of the priorities of state impact on the production and social development of rural areas. The study presents the principal directions of theoretical and methodological background for assessing and forecasting the effective development of territorial socio-economic systems of rural areas. The authors outline the target of the production and social infrastructure functioning, local government and civil society institutions activities, and social responsibility of business. As a tool for assessing rural territories sustainable development, the authors propose the following approaches: indicative, institutional, economic-legal, functional, system-functional, synergistic, resource-functional, and criterial. The indicative management of rural development is a system of relations based on indicators of innovative, investment and motivational activities of agriculture and its social environment.