Improvement of administrative-territorial system from the standpoint of human geography (the case of Korets district, Rivne region)

Abstract

The article describes the international experience of the administrative-territorial reform, particularly in the post-Soviet countries such as Estonia, Latvia, Georgia and the post-communist Czech Republic. The paper reflects the history, the main approaches and principles of administrative-territorial reforms have been applied in these countries, as well as the challenges that countries have faced in the process of the reform. The authors made an attempt to analyze administrative-territorial division of the listed countries at the present stage and in Soviet times, considered transition are described. We also considered modern structure of the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine at all levels and performed the analysis of perspective plan of changing the administrative-territorial division in Korets District of Rivne Region by combining the twenty five rural and one urban council in the two enlarged territorial communities with the elimination of the district level, considering the modern structure of the area in the view of main geographic parameters. The main parameters of this analysis are community population, land area and own financial resources. Also, we built map-chart of contemporary and future division of the district depicting the basic elements of the administrative-territorial division. According to the figures it was concluded that enlarged communities, proposed by the perspective plan, are comparable and suggested division is rational.

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Iryna Osipchuk, Pavlo Chernyak, Vitaliy Bryzh

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  • EP ID EP236295
  • DOI 10.17721/2413-7154/2016.75.12-20
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Iryna Osipchuk, Pavlo Chernyak, Vitaliy Bryzh (2016). Improvement of administrative-territorial system from the standpoint of human geography (the case of Korets district, Rivne region). Економічна та соціальна географія, 75(), 12-20. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-236295