Comparative characteristics of the land use structure for different types of territorial communities

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Abstract

According to the results of comparative assessment of the land use structure of urban, township and rural territorial communities, it was found that all three types of communities are characterized by a high degree of plowing and low forest share . The calculated coefficients of anthropogenic transformation, ecological stability, anthropogenic load, showed that Vyshnivets township and Borsukivska rural territorial communities belong to the category of ecologically unstable territories, Lanovets urban territorial community - to medium ecologically stable territories. In all three types of territorial communities, landscapes are moderately transformed. Urban, township and rural territorial communities experience a sufficiently high (above average) anthropogenic pressure. The obtained results of calculations create objective preconditions for optimizing the structure of land use of the studied territorial communities.

 The developed optimization model of land use of Lanovets city, Vyshnivets township and Borsukivka rural territorial communities envisages reduction of arable lands, increase of forest cover and bringing the share of natural lands to the optimal. 

Author Biographies

I. Y. Chebolda , Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Maxyma Kryvonisa str.2, Ternopil, 46027, Ukraine

PhD (Geography), Associate Professor of the Department of Geography and Methods of its Teaching

I. R. Kuzyk, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University, Maxyma Kryvonisa str.2, Ternopil, 46027, Ukraine

PhD, Assistant of the Department of Geography and Methods of its Teaching

Published

2023-07-11