Methodology of Institutional Regulation of Complex Development of Land Management and Assessment of Its Effectiveness

Modern organizational and economic methods of managing agricultural land use in Ukraine do not ensure its sustainable development, which is reflected in the increasing degradation processes. The current institutional system in Ukraine’s land relations sector is characterized by uncertainty and the lack of clearly established social norms and rules for the ecological management and use of land resources, as well as the roles and statuses of participants in land relations. The absence of a unified national system that meets state and public needs and is supported by an adequate social environment and the ecological awareness of government authorities and citizens hinders the development of effective and competitive agricultural entrepreneurship aimed at creating environmentally clean land resources and producing safe products. A land management system is proposed, where the first level of goal decomposition includes the basic regulatory functions (creation of an ecological network and a system of sustainable land use; forecasting and spatial planning for the use of land and natural resources; development of effective forms of ownership and land use; state support and economic incentives for rational forms of ownership and land use). Regulatory functions, as the main element of the institutional regulation system for the comprehensive development of land management, also serve as the basis for classifying regulatory instruments. The article presents the author’s approach to classifying the instruments of institutional regulation for the comprehensive development of land management according to the basic regulatory functions and their instruments. The institutionalization of land management will contribute to environmentally safe land management in rural areas, the formation of unified land masses, and the reduction of degradation processes. It will also improve the procedures for maintaining land cadastre and monitoring, ensure legislative regulation of access for individuals and legal entities, landowners, and land users to information about land plots and soil quality, which will be used for organizing economic activities, as well as for the economic stimulation of rational land use.