Protection Of Land Resources Research Articles

Information support for land management in territories with special land management conditions

When managing land resources at various administrative and territorial levels, cadastral, monitoring and land management information is of great importance. Information from the real estate cadastre and the unified state register of real estate objects is the basis for creating a database on land resources and real estate objects, and predicting changes in their state. As far as the land management system is complex, the systematic approach to the management and protection of land resources is required; organizational and technological conditions should be linked with possible environmental and economic consequences within the boundaries of territories, including territories with a special land management regime. The boundaries of these territories do not coincide with the ones of settlements and are established on the basis of research materials used to determine the subject of a special land management regime. The article examines features of the system of information support for land management in territories with a special land management regime. The authors identified the main participants in the information space of land management, the composition of information and applied software solutions containing such information. A unified information system that integrates information for the purpose of coordinated management and coordination of functions should be created for territories with a special land management regime. Classification of some territories with special land management conditions as objects of the unified state register of real estate objects will improve the quality of land management decisions. The studies conducted on the example of the Ples cluster showed that the share of cadastral cost in the total land management cost is insignificant and entails a greater number of benefits (economic, environmental, informational, etc.).

Key provisions of digital land management theory and methods

The article discusses some of the new positions of theory and methods of digital land management (DLM). The goals and objectives of digitization of the land building industry in the country’s land management system (LMS) are highlighted. Significant reduction in financial costs and relatively rapid restoration of all the functions of land management are possible only through its automation, information and complete digitization. The work carried out in the field of DLM is aimed at improving and implementing an intelligent system of planning, land-building and optimization of both land of all categories and agricultural resources, use and protection of land in agricultural production at different levels of generalization. These are field, economy, municipality, subject of the Russian Federation, country, foreign territories, operating on the basis of digital, remote, geo-information technologies and computer-generated methods. Smart land management assumes the basic spatial basis of the implementation of digital transformation of the following priorities: smart land use, smart field, smart farm, smart storage, smart greenhouse, smart garden, etc. Implementation of this concept is carried out in the form of the realization and introduction of the technological geo-information platform of DLM as the main mechanism for the implementation of agricultural policy of the state, rational use and protection of land resources and is key in relation to the sectors of the economy, which have a spatial link. The issues discussed in the article are directly related to the creation of essentially a new content of land management which corresponds to the zeitgeist. And the non-formation basis is the data derived from traditional ways of obtaining information, new technologies among them: unmanned aerial vehicles, laser scanning high-resolution satellite imagery, development of computer systems, network solutions based on cloud storage information, big data “Big Data” and block-chain “Blockchain”, etc. This modernization and rearmament of the industry should be accompanied by adjustments about the new provisions of the theory and methods of land management, its goals and objectives, the emergence of new concepts and terms and their interpretations.

Land potential of Non-chernozem region, its use and influence on the quality of life in rural areas

The article provides a brief analysis of certain norms of the Russian land legislation in the field of protection and use of land resources for the agricultural production. The authors underline the importance of land management in the organization of work aimed at preserving and protection soil fertility and environment. The main subjects, entrusted with powers to carry out activities on soil fertility preservation have been identified in this paper. It was found that the state actually freed the owners of land plots, land users, landowners and tenants of agricultural lands from the need to finance the measures for the reproduction of land fertility that was an integral part of agricultural technologies in the past. So, since the mid-90s, land management as an institution of development doesn’t exist in Russia anymore. As a result, the removal of nitrogen by crops from the soil exceeded its input with organic and mineral fertilizers, provoking the decrease in soil fertility. The characteristics of the labor and land potential of the subjects of the Russian Federation that are part of the Non-Chernozem Economic Zone of the country are considered in this article.

LEGAL SUPPORT TO THE PROTECTION OF LAND AND SOIL IN LIGHT OF NEW REGULATIONS OF UKRAINE

In this article, regulations on land and soil protection are studied in a chronological sequence and in the historical and legal contexts. The main factors responsible for the deterioration of the quality of land resources and the soil environment are identified. The modern regulatory framework providing legal support to land and soil protection is analyzed. Among the current problems is the improper land-use triggered by inadequate legal regulation concerning pollution, depletion, degradation, and reduced fertility of soil. Appropriate legal protection to the ecological functions of the soil is absent. Further legal framework addressing rational use and protection of land resources (including soil) in Ukraine should be developed integrating environmental interests of society and ecological tenets of sustainable development.

Criminal law counteraction to land pollution in the EU countries: searching for the optimal model

The main goal of the article is to study both advantages and disadvantages of the approaches of the European Union (EU) states to criminal law prevention of land pollution. As a result of this an optimal legislative model should be developed to protect this element of the environment from criminal encroachment, which can be further used by the EU states in improving existing or creating new rules aimed at criminal law protection of land resources from pollution or the creation of new rules aimed at criminal law protection of land resources from pollution. The following research methods have been used to study criminal law provisions of the selected countries, to prove the stated hypotheses and to formulate conclusions: comparative law, system analysis, formal-logical, dialectical and modeling method. As a result of the study of various models of criminal law protection of land resources embodied in the legislation of nineteen European Union states, it has been proved that: 1) such protection should be carried out by a single universal rule on criminal liability for pollution not only of land but also of other components of the environment (water, air, forest); 2) only such land pollution shall be considered criminal, which has led to real (non-potential) damage to the environment, human health or property damage; 3) liability for land pollution should be differentiated depending on: a) weather guilty person’s act was intentional or negligent; b) what the consequences of land pollution have been.

Assessment and Method of Water Resources Management in the Asa River Basin

The article presents the method of water resources management in the Asa river basin and indicators of water intake, water supply and assessment of water quality. Water is an economically important resource that determines the sustainability of a country’s development. New trends show that water issues are becoming more complex with other sectors, including agriculture, energy, industry, transport, and communications, as well as with social sectors: education, environment, and healthcare, rural or regional development. The rational use of water resources, as well as the protection of water resources and access to drinking water are an important priority for the world community. The Republic of Kazakhstan is no exception, since the deficit of water resources is growing every year. Today’s global challenges, especially climate change and population growth, are making the situation even more worrisome. Climate change is caused by dynamic processes on Earth, external influences such as fluctuations in the intensity of sunlight, and recent human activities. Consequently, in the conditions of Kazakhstan, where water resources are limited, and irrigation develops in various natural and climatic zones, further intensification of irrigated agriculture can be carried out through the development of environmentally friendly integrated technologies, ecological and reclamation management of water and land resources, ensuring a decrease in the amount of unproductive losses of irrigation water, as well as protection of water and land resources from pollution by collector-waste waters, leaching of organic substances and nutrients, the rate of salt accumulation in the root layer and the rate of alkalization and alkalinization processes. This approach is predetermined by the fact that the existing methods of water resources management inevitably lead to large losses of irrigation water for infiltration, discharge and evaporation, the value of which reaches 60–70% of the water intake.

Application of GIS and Criminal Legal Aspects for Protecting Land Resources in Ukraine

Application of GIS and Criminal Legal Aspects for Protecting Land Resources in Ukraine

The institutional theory trend of land organization and land planning development

Land planning specialization of land relations and land use system has significantly strengthened the role and place of land planning activities in the development of the country's economy and its territories. However, the theory of land organization and land planning does not keep up with the demands of practice. The functions, subject and objects of land organization and land planning are declared to a limited extent. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to substantiate the current development of land organization and land planning in Ukraine on the basis of the latest institutional and behavioral economic theory. It is substantiated that land planning activity is a socio-economic institution that provides trust, understanding and in the socio-economic area, through professional processing, submission and interpretation for users of land information about the facts and processes of organizations (institutions). In the narrow sense the land planning is the Institution of transformation using specific methods, rules (its formal component) and professional skills and judgments (informal component of the institution) of land managing facts in the language of numbers for understanding and manageability of all subjects of the socio-economic area. In a broad sense, land planning as an institution forms a certain face of land-tenure and land-use, state land institutions, public and other organizations (institutes) who organize and manage the use and protection of land and other natural resources and provide important informational content of local, regional, national and global socio-economic areas. The institution of land planning is primarily characterized by the state of the informal component, its ability to influence the adoption and compliance with the «rules of the game» through «organizations-institutions» (primarily associations of professional land surveyors). Influence the effective representation of management and economic activities related to land in society. This increase in theoretical ideas opens up new ways to develop land planning and, consequently, land reform measures. Its scientific and legal components («rules of the game») are increasingly based on ideas, the influence of the professional environment, which should become more and more organizationally united. On the other hand, the institutional theory of land planning opens the possibility and substantiates the need for the use of state regulatory bodies, scientific schools, professional associations of land surveyors, the ideology of «land planning engineering» and «land planning imperialism» in land policy.

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Factors of Rural Settlements in Low Hilly Region-A Case Study of 17 Cities in Hubei Province, China.

With the rapid development of the social economy, factors of social and economic development in China’s rural areas have been continuously reorganized, and the pattern and distribution of rural residential areas have undergone significant changes. In rural areas, there have been many peculiar phenomena of “reducing people but not reducing land in rural areas, which has caused tremendous pressure on land resource protection. We used geographic detectors and a geographically temporally weighted regression model (GTWR) to explore the rural settlements’ evolution and driving mechanism in Hubei Province from 1990 to 2015. The results show that the kernel density of rural settlements decreased from 1.62 villages/km2 in 1990 to 1.60 villages/km2 in 2015. The scale of rural residential patches has obvious regional differentiation characteristics. From southeast to northwest, there is a wave-like distribution structure of “high-low-high-low-high”, and the clustering characteristics of “cold and hot spots” are strengthened with time. Based on GTWR analysis, the total rural population, total power of agricultural machinery, and rural electricity consumption have promoted the expansion of rural settlements, with the regression coefficients 0.096, 0.484, and 0.878, respectively. Cultivated land, agricultural output value, and rural labor force have negative impacts on the expansion, the regression coefficients of the village were −0.584, −0.510, and −0.109, respectively.

Energy resource efficient and environmentally friendly land use planning principles for intensive remediation of solid waste landfills

Solving the problem of energy resources shortage is proposed in close connection to the problem of environmental pollution. The land use management is proposed as a basic tool. This is because the land use management implementation is focused on of land resources protection and has always been considered exclusively as the land resources rational and effective use.

Regional Land Eco-Security Evaluation for the Mining City of Daye in China Using the GIS-Based Grey TOPSIS Method

Regional ecological security assessment is a significant methodology for environmental protection, land utilisation, and human development. This study aims to reveal the regional constraints of ecological resources to overcome the difficulties and complexities in quantification of current models used in land ecosystems. For this purpose, the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) was linked to a grey relational analysis and integrated with a geographic information system. The obtained method was used to construct a land eco-security evaluation on a regional scale for application in a traditional mining city, Daye, in central China. Parameter analysis was introduced to the method to produce a more realistic spatial distribution of eco-security. Subsequently, based on the pressure–state–response framework, the eco-security index was calculated, and the carrying capacity of land resources and population for each sub-region were analysed. The results showed that: (i) very insecure and insecure classes comprised 5.65% and 18.2% of the total area, respectively, highlighting the vulnerable eco-environmental situation; (ii) moderate secure classes areas comprised a large amount of arable land, spanning an area of 494.5 km2; (iii) secure areas were distributed in the northwest, containing mostly water and wetland areas and accounting for 426.3 km2; and (iv) very secure areas were located on the southeastern region, involving traditional woodland with a better vegetation cover and an overall higher eco-environmental quality. In addition, for each sub-region, the extremely low and low ecological security areas were mainly arable and urban lands, which amounted to 305 and 190 km2, respectively. Under the current ecological constraints, sub-region 1 cannot continue supporting the population size in Daye City. The present results demonstrate the accuracy of our methodology, and our method may be used by local managers to make effective decisions for regional environment protection and sustainable use of land resources.

Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Driving Mechanism of the “Resource Curse” of the Cultivated Land in Main Agricultural Production Regions: A Case Study of Jianghan Plain, Central China

Cultivated land resources are an important component of natural resources and significant in stabilizing economic and social order and ensuring national food security. Although the research on resource curse has progressed considerably, only a few studies have explored the existence and influencing factors of the resource curse of non-traditional mineral resources. The current study introduced resource curse theory to the cultivated land resources research and directly investigated the county-level relationship between cultivated land resource abundance and economic development. Meanwhile, the spatiotemporal dynamic pattern and driving factors of the cultivated land curse were evaluated on the cultivated land curse coefficient in China’s Jianghan Plain from 2001 to 2017. The results indicated that the curse coefficient of cultivated land resources in Jianghan Plain generally shows a downward trend. That is, the curse phenomenon of the cultivated land resources in large regions did not improve significantly in 2001–2017. The influencing factors of the cultivated land resource curse in different cursed degree areas varied and the spatial interaction of the cursed degree areas differed as well. This study proposed a transmission mechanism of the cultivated land resource curse in Jianghan Plain. Policies from throughout the entire and within the main agricultural producing areas were proposed to adjust the cultivated land resource curse. The results and conclusions of this study will be beneficial in improving future land-use policies in major agricultural areas and reducing lag in economic development caused by the strict protection of cultivated land resources.

Combining finite mixture distribution, receptor model, and geostatistical simulation to evaluate heavy metals pollution in soils: Source and spatial pattern

AbstractSoil heavy metals (HMs) pollution has caused significant land degradation by affecting soil properties and functions. Clarifying sources and spatial distributions of soil HMs is necessary for the investigation of land degradation, but lacks accurate and efficient methods. This study proposes a combined method for improving source apportionment and spatial prediction of soil HMs. Finite mixture distribution modelling (FMDM) was used to explore the backgrounds and contamination thresholds, and can verify the source contribution calculated by positive matrix factorization (PMF). To improve the efficiency of traditional multivariate geostatistical simulation, independent component analysis and sequential Gaussian simulation were integrated into geostatistical independent simulation for revealing the spatial patterns and the polluted areas. The combined method was applied to an HMs dataset of Longkou City, eastern China as a case‐study. Both PMF and FMDM produced three sources of HMs. Cr and Ni were dominated by natural sources. Agricultural inputs mainly affected Cd, Cu, and Zn concentrations. Hg, 66.8%, and Pb, 8.1%, originated from industrial, mining, and traffic emissions. Hazardous areas exceeding moderate pollution cutoffs comprised 203.88 km2, accounting for 23.2% of the study area. Less than 0.1% of the areas for all HMs were identified as hazardous zones exceeding the high pollution thresholds. The reasonable management of industrial and agricultural activities, traffic emissions, and mining could have an important influence on the protection of land resources. Combining FMDM, PMF, and geostatistical independent simulation proved valid for investigating the land degradation due to HMs pollution.

ФІНАНСОВЕ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ВІДТВОРЕННЯ ЗБАЛАНСОВАНОГО СІЛЬСЬКОГОСПОДАРСЬКОГО ЗЕМЛЕКОРИСТУВАННЯ

An important component of forming the basis for the balanced development of the domestic agricultural sector is the reproduction and protection of land resources. A significant part of the problems here are directly related to the insufficiency and inefficiency of financial support for agricultural land use. The purpose of the article is to reveal the financial and credit mechanism for ensuring balanced land use and to develop proposals for improving the financial support for the reproduction and protection of agricultural land through the introduction of tax incentives. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and diversified; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is established that financial relations in agricultural land use combine a very large chain of relationships between the state, enterprises, individuals and financial institutions in terms of financial support for the reproduction of agricultural land use. The financial and credit mechanism for stimulating balanced agricultural land use can be defined as structurally complex and branched; it has its own features to ensure its implementation and influence on the subjects of financial and credit relations in the direction of regulating their activities. It is proved that it is necessary to create such conditions of management that unbalanced use of land became economically unprofitable. The level of profitability and income of land users should become dependent on the degree of achievement of balanced agricultural land use, which is determined by a set of agrochemical indicators of the quality of land used for agricultural activities. In order to financially ensure the reproduction of balanced agricultural land use, the introduction of tax incentives is proposed. These include the formation of general favorable tax conditions for enterprises in the agricultural sector of the economy and the introduction of targeted tax benefits. It is established that the use of the above financial and credit levers and incentives for the development of balanced land use is the most accepted in today's challenges, because it has minimal impact on the expenditure side of the state budget.

海口市海岸带近30年土地利用变化的景观生态风险评价

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 海口市海岸带近30年土地利用变化的景观生态风险评价 DOI: 10.5846/stxb201909211974 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金项目（41761118）；海南省自然科学基金项目（418MS050） Landscape ecological risk assessment of land use changes in the coastal area of Haikou City in the past 30 years Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: National Natural Science Foundation of China; Hainan Natural Science Foundation projects 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:采用海口市海岸带1988、2000、2009、2017年4期土地利用矢量数据，运用格网GIS法、Kriging内插法构建景观生态风险指数模型，对海口市海岸带进行景观生态风险综合评价。结果表明：（1）各景观面积波动较大，景观类型以建设用地和耕地为主；（2）2000-2017年间人类活动对景观的干扰最为强烈，各景观的分离度、干扰度、脆弱度最大值均在此时域内出现；（3）研究时域内研究区的平均生态风险值由0.3424增加到0.4468；生态风险等级总体呈低等级向高等级转移的趋势，空间分布呈中部向东西、内陆向沿海递减的趋势，高等级的风险区逐渐朝沿海地区蔓延；较高和高生态风险区主要分布在海口建成区、南渡江沿岸、美兰机场、红树林保护区以及三江镇国营农场附近；（4）城市建设和临港产业的发展导致绿地、水域面积减少且分布趋于破碎、分离，是研究区生态风险值总趋势呈增高的主要原因。研究结果可为海口市海岸带景观格局的优化、土地资源的保护和可持续发展方面提供科学依据。 Abstract:Coastal zone, a key area for human settlement and development of economic, has been affected to a certain extent with human activities and rapid urbanization, resulting in landscape pattern changes and environment deterioration. This research field has become the study hotspot of many scholars. Based on ArcGIS and Fragstats, four phases of land use vector data of Haikou coastal zone in 1988, 2000, 2009 and 2017 have been processed. Furthermore, with the help of grid GIS method and Kriging interpolation method, the landscape ecological risk index model has been set up. Thus, we comprehensively evaluated the landscape ecological risk of the coastal zone of Haikou City. The results showed that: (1) the landscape area varied greatly and the main landscape type was construction and the cultivated land. (2) Human activities had the strongest interference to the landscape between 2000 and 2017, and the maximum value of separation, interference and vulnerability appeares in this time. (3) The average ecological risk in the study area increased from 0.3424 to 0.4468. The transformation of ecological risk level was generally from low to high. In addition, the spatial distribution presented a decreasing trend from the middle to the east-west and inland to the coast, as well as the high-level risk areas gradually spread to the coast. The area with high and extremely high ecological risk were mainly distributed in the Haikou Built-up Area, the Nandu River bank, Meilan Airport, Mangrove Reserve, and the State Farm in Sanjiang Town. (4) The main reason for the increased ecological risk values is the area of green space and water is reduced and the distribution tends to fragment and separate, as the development of city and port industry. The results of this study can provide scientific basis for optimization of the landscape pattern, protection of land resources and sustainable development in the coastal zone of Haikou City. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

Optimization of Land Resource Information Management System Based on Internet of Things

The business process model of information management is also optimized, while helping the relevant departments using the system to improve their work efficiency. After research and analysis, this paper shows that the land resource information management system can be divided into four functional modules, which are basic land resource information management, land resource land use approval management, official document information management, and office business management, and these modules can effectively complete the work related to land resource management. The full and reasonable use and protection of land resources can ensure the implementation of sustainable development policies, and the development of land resource management is the basic requirement of national modernization and the inevitable trend in the country, and because land resource management covers a large amount of information involving a wide range of information, including information within the scope of work, it is very necessary to ensure the effectiveness and accuracy of land resources and information. The information system can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy of land resources and information. Information system can effectively improve the development, management, research, and use of land resources; electronic government system can help land resources to obtain accurate analysis and research and detailed access to the ability to understand the status of resources, in the daily changing data information dynamic understanding of the development of information changes, and grasp the latest trends in land resources, the trend of analysis, and monitoring of market resources, to provide customers with reliable decision support. It is a powerful background data guarantee for customers to provide reliable decision support.

Modern Methods to Provide Resource Security of Agricultural Land-Use

Protection and rational use of agricultural land resources is an urgent subject of scientific research and a state task due to new challenges to humanity: the growth of the Earth’s population, climate change, deterioration and soil fertility. In this regard, the article examines the resource security of land use. In particular, the authors analyze the availability of sown areas and their structure in Ukraine for 1990-2021 and conclude that their reduction by 12.4% and irrational use, namely: non-compliance with the Standards of optimal ratio of crops in crop rotations in different natural and agricultural regions, especially standards for areas under fodder crops, perennial and annual grasses. The article also analyzes the preservation of the balance between the removal of nutrients from the soil by crops and compensatory application of mineral and organic fertilizers. The authors conclude that catastrophically low levels of organic fertilizer application due to repeated shrinkage of livestock and poultry in 1990-2020. As a result, the fertility of agricultural land is reduced, the soil loses the most valuable component – humus. The article identifies phenomena dangerous to the resource security of agriculture: significant spread of water and wind erosion, salinization and acidification, intensive mechanical tillage, soil pollution due to emissions from industrial enterprises, livestock complexes, vehicles (especially cars), violations of the rules of extraction, transportation and processing of minerals, application and storage of agrochemicals and pesticides, utilization and storage of waste. The authors substantiate the feasibility of greening agricultural land use using the following areas and methods: carrying out of the proper land management and streamlining of structure of sown areas according to the specifications approved by the government; improving the balance between removal and compensatory application of nutrients through the use of green manure, straw, nutrient residues, sapropel, peat, vermiculture development; streamlining of lease relations in order to strengthen land protection; anti-erosion measures, liming and plastering of soils; improvement of agricultural machinery in order to significantly reduce the physical degradation of arable land; reduction of field pollution by industrial, transport and other emissions; changes in attitudes to land use, the development of its ecological culture

Detection and prediction of land use change impact on the streamflow regime in Sahelian river basin, northwestern Nigeria

Abstract Detecting and predicting the impact of land use/land cover (LULC) changes on streamflow are crucial sources of information for the effective management and protection of land and water resources in Sahelian ecosystems such as the Hadejia river basin. In this study, LULC change detection was performed using ENVI, while the LULC modeling was conducted using the cellular automata (CA)–Markov in the IDRISI environment. However, the streamflow trend and variation were assessed using the Mann–Kendall (MK) trend test and the inverse distance weightage (IDW). Before the LULC modeling and projection (2030), the LULC was classified for 1990, 2000, and 2010 using supervised classification. Model output revealed a strong relationship between LULC and streamflow trend, thus, the decade 1990–2000 was the decade with high forest clearance and streamflow output, and consequently severe floods. However, the decade 2000–2010 witnessed land use expansion mainly via construction (3.4%). Meanwhile, the scenario will slightly change in the future as agriculture is projected to expand by about 9.3% from 2010 to 2030 due to the increased human population. Thus, food insecurity aggravated by climate change should be anticipated, and measures to avert/reduce their effects must be initiated.

Study on the Control Indexes of Construction Land in Shandong Province from the Perspective of Intensive Use

Based on the revision of “Construction Land Control Standard of Shandong Province (2019)”, this paper studied on the indexes of construction land of all kinds by improving the system of control standards, innovating the methods of studying the index, optimizing the content controlled by the index, etc., following the principle of land conservation and its intensive use. It is hoped that it can provide some reference for the establishment of a strict system of land conservation and its intensive use, effective implementation of land supply policies and industrial policies, and improvement of land use efficiency and resource protection capacity.

ЗЕМЕЛЬНІ ВІДНОСИНИ ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ КРИМІНАЛЬНО-ПРАВОВОЇ ОХОРОНИ В УКРАЇНІ

The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of land relations as an object of criminal law protection and prevention of criminal offenses in the field of land relations. The author formulated the concept of «land relations», and the study of current legislation, scientific sources provided an opportunity to reveal the essence and content of land relations, to explore the current state of public administration. Land legal relations are public relations that exist in connection with the exercise of the rights and legitimate interests of landowners and land users, their responsibilities; activities of jurisdictional bodies and other entities regarding the possession, use and disposal of land, its rational use, reproduction and protection. Analysis of current regulations, scientific sources made it possible to reveal the essence and content of land relations, to explore the current state of public administration. Land relations are a circle of homogeneous social relations: the subjects of which may be individuals, legal entities, public authorities and local governments, foreign states, international organizations, public associations and organizations – bearers of subjective legal rights and responsibilities; the common object of which is land, and the direct objects may be land, land as a natural resource, including soils, information about land; their content is the relationship of land ownership and land use, their rational use, reproduction and protection, the activities of public administration, in accordance with the specifics of land categories, features of common and direct objects. Based on modern legal understanding, the principles of criminal law protection of one of the fundamental elements of the environment – land resources as an object of the environment, legal relations of land ownership and agricultural activities. The concept of criminal-legal protection of land resources of Ukraine is developed, which is based on the results of a comprehensive study of the stated issues, taking into account modern views and recent achievements of legal doctrine, which includes the legislator, and man as an integral part of the unified system of the latter, and law enforcement – on the use of regulations not only of criminal law, but also a set of departmental legal acts in the process of criminal law protection of land resources of Ukraine.