The Landscape Plans System as a Tool for Sustainable Development in Ukraine

Abstract

On the way to sustainable development, Ukraine faces a number of social, economic and environmental challenges. The proper response to them is largely associated with overcoming the problems of spatial planning and management. In this context what is significant is the development of new approaches that take into account the modern European experience and aim to provide system recommendations effective on different levels of territorial organization of society. A number of effective methodological tools for ecologically based organization of territory are provided by landscape planning, aimed at conservation of landscape and biological diversity, ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources based on the principles of sustainable development . This approach is developed most deeply and consistently in Germany. There landscape planning is carried out on four territorial and administrative levels as a hierarchical system of landscape plans—documents that consist of a number of inventory and evaluation maps, maps of conflicts and goals and explanatory texts. Implementation of the methodological experience of landscape planning in the case of Ukraine is a very difficult but interesting problem related to the improvement and optimization of landscape planning methodology for the conditions of Ukraine, in particular involving developments in such areas as landscape science, territorial planning, environmental management and sustainable development , landscape planning integration into the system of territorial plans at various levels and Ukrainian legislation, etc. The process of landscape planning is based on sequentially solving a number of goals: The definition of framework objectives of landscape planning, cataloguing and assessment of data, detection and estimation of conflicts, development of the concept of environmental goals and measures, approval, implementation and monitoring. These tasks are elaborated on three levels of planning (landscape programme, framework landscape plan and landscape plan) using the example of Cherkasy region of Ukraine.KeywordsLandscape planningSustainable developmentRegion