Discussions on fundamental concepts in land management have been and are ongoing throughout the land reform process. In such circumstances, domestic scientists have made considerable efforts to solve the problems of land management and land reform, beginning, first of all, with the systematization or classification of problems arising in the process of land reform or land management. The problems of interpretation of the concept of land management in Ukraine are investigated; this investigation is based on the legislative support of land management, on the ways of implementation of the land reform and its results, and on the researches by domestic scientists. The analysis of problems, arisen as a result of the implementation and incompleteness of the land reform and which typically occur during implementation of the land management at the present stage and in previous years, has been made on the basis of a chronological analysis of scientific research. A scheme of classification of the problems of land development is proposed; this scheme includes problems of the land management and problems of the land reform. The conformity analysis concerning land management at different levels and its corresponding purposes has been made; these purposes are currently fixed by the regulatory legal acts. The result of the conducted research and the classification of the problems of land development will further be reflected in the deepening of the research on the specific problems of land management and in the application of a systematic approach to their solution.

The modern structure of agricultural lands, formed in the conditions of a radical reformation of land relations in rural areas, is analyzed. It is revealed that this structure in agricultural enterprises of different forms of ownership does not meet the principles of rational use of nature due to the excessive share of arable land and low - environmentally sustainable land. At the same time, the share of the arable land in the structure of agricultural land in the non-state agricultural enterprises is 11-12% higher than in the state-owned, which is explained by the efforts of private entrepreneurs – tenants aimed at increasing agricultural production by expanding the area of arable land. The extremely high level of plowing of agricultural land is a consequence ofthe extensive use of land resources and the main reason for the spread of degradation processes. The only solution to this problem is the development of land management projects that provide ecological and economic justification for crop rotation and land management. It is shown that the sustainable development of rural territories is not possible without improvement of the structure of sown areas, the main current disadvantage of which is the market-driven excessive share of highly profitable crops of the technical group and a very low shareof forage crops, which can be the cause not only of the ecological but also of the socio-economic problems. Optimization of the structure of the sown areas of crops should be carried out on the basis of ecological-landscape land management in consideration with the soil and climatic conditions of specific rural territories and resource provision of agricultural enterprises.

The normative legal acts and scientific publications on the distribution (redistribution) of land by purpose and types of use are analyzed on the example of land uses of institutions and enterprises of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (hereinafter - NAAS). It is established that in the current legislation there is no type of documentation on land management, concerning the decision of questions of distribution (redistribution) of land by types of use. To take into account the specifics of land use by the NAAS institutions and enterprises, which have land plots, research fields, nurseries, valuable lands for scientific research, which should be taken into account when developing documentation on land management. The necessity of introducing scientific justification for determining the purpose and type of use as a section in the land documentation documentation is proposed.

The article explores the prospects of territorial development of agricultural land use in Ukraine. It has been established that land resources, namely agricultural lands, are one of the main agricultural production resources required for crop production, including livestock production. It is concluded that the efficiency of agricultural land, distribution between land users, depends on the efficiency of agricultural production as a whole. It is emphasized that the emphasis of the state policy in the agrarian sphere on the accelerated and insufficiently motivated privatization of land and property caused the destruction of large commodity agricultural production, but was not effective in the formation of new productive production forms. It was emphasized that with the change of economic forms the boundaries of land use, the size of land were changed, which leads to difficulties in their cultivation and implementation of measures for their protection. For example, in connection with the creation of a large number of farms, there was a significant fragmentation of land, which in turn led to excessive parceling of land and, in particular, to a decrease in the efficiency of agricultural production.

Taking into account the fact that the soil appraisal data is the basis for the economic valuation of agricultural land, and the data on the economic valuation of land is the basis for the normative monetary valuation of land plots, that is, there is a single, continuous methodological process of land valuation in which the data are unreliable in the first stage generates calculation errors in the following stages. Since the issue of soil appraisal in the conditions of market land relations does not lose its relevance, and taking into account that the last time work on soil appraisal of agricultural lands in Ukraine was carried out in 1993, and over the past quarter century, formally, should already be carried out, at least three new soil appraisal tours, as it is prescribed in the Law of Ukraine “On land valuation”, but in fact, the soil appraisal indicators were not updated for various reasons. The authors analyzed the database of soil assessment in Ukraine according to 1993 scales, as well as the explications of agro-industrial groups of soils of natural agricultural regions (NAR) for the stock materials of the Institute of Land Management of the UAAS, on the basis of which an attempt was made to determine the completeness of the soil cover of the NAR of Ukraine for the indicators of assessment . The study shows that the indicators of soil appraisal on the materials of the Institute of Land Management of the UAAS in their completeness far from always can serve as the basis for a continuous monetary assessment of agricultural land and require research using new approaches and developments.

This article analyzes the strategies that are being developed for the communities, identifies whether they can lead to economic and social development of the community and increase budget revenues in the long run. It is found that the most important part, the most powerful resource of a community is its people. In the course of the research, it was decided to conduct a qualitative and quantitative survey of the residents of KolomatskaUTC using the method of anonymous online questionnaire using the Google Docs service. There is a high level of awareness among the residents of the community on the issues of decentralization of power, as well as the positive impact of decentralization on the development of the community. It is determined that 63% of the surveyed residents of the community positively evaluate the prospect of further life in the community and do not plan to leave it. The survey found that about half of those surveyed were willing to work with fellow villagers in co-operative societies or production associations to improve their work efficiency and increase their own well-being and community development. It was also found that the vast majority wanted to learn new skills and do it on their own.The result of this research is the formation of a strategic goal of community development for a long period.

Land valuation is based on numerous principles, among which the principle of residual productivity plays a leading role. According to this principle, the current land value is determined by the residual income from its possible future use in the future, taking into account the costs and the time required to obtain this income. In addition, the residual productivity principle is fundamental in revealing the immanent uncertainty of land valuation due to the multiplicity of its value, each of which will be true in assumptions and false in other cases. The application of this principle in the land valuation has become constitutional in the formation and development of its methodological apparatus. The article discusses the evolution of land valuation methods based on the residual productivity principle – from traditional extraction methods and residual capitalization to discounted cash flow methods – and analyzes the main advantages and limitations of their use in valuation practice. The necessity of moving from deterministic to stochastic cash flows models and supplementing them with optional pricing models, which best reflect the modern understanding of the residual nature of land value and taking into account its inherent uncertainty, has been proved.

The current state of the market of non-agricultural land and agricultural land that are not under the moratorium is analyzed. The legislatively fixed definition of monetary valuation, which is one of the bases for opening the land circulation of commodity agricultural production, is investigated. The main features of land valuation for which the process of land valuation should be conducted in terms of market relations are noted. The disadvantages of the existing system of regulatory monetary valuation of agricultural land outside the settlements of Ukraine, which are formed not on the market valuation, are presented. The method of group estimation of land according to the common characteristics of land on a market basis, which is used in most countries of the world and is called mass estimation, is proposed. Advantages and disadvantages of methods of mass land valuation are shown in the conditions of expectation of opening of a complete land market. The directions of improvement of the modern system of land valuation for the purposes of their taxation and determination of real value are determined. The extreme importance of land valuation as the main regulatory factor for the proper functioning of the land market is shown.

The article reflects the results of the study of deformations of the stream bed of the Turiya River (Kovel Hydropost, hydro range No. 5) during 1983–2018. For this purpose, multiple cross-sections of the channel and various combined flow curves were constructed and analyzed, the levels of water in the river, the relationships between the course of erosion-accumulation processes along the course and the dynamics of natural and anthropogenic factors are revealed. The information base of the study was the theoretical basis of the doctrine of channel processes, which are substantiated in the works of foreign and Ukrainian scientists, the materials of our own observations, data from the Volyn Center for Hydrology and Meteorology (hereinafter VCGM). In the process of solving the tasks, the methods of comparative analysis, synthesis, graphic, mathematical and statistical methods were applied; the system approach was applied. During the study it was established that during the specified time interval in the stream bed there was an alternation of erosion and accumulation processes, which was expressed by the alternation of periods of some erosion of the stream bed and its siltation. The transverse profiles of the Turiya stream bed indicate that during the period 1983–1988, mainly accumulative processes prevailed in the channel, and in the following period (1988–2008) they changed to erosion ones. In recent years, rechargeable processes have become dominant and the profile of the stream bed in 2018 has come closer to its stream bed in 1988. The flow and water level curves of Turiya confirm our conclusions about trends in erosion-accumulation processes along the stream bed. During the periods 1983–1988 and 1996–2000, the accumulation processes dominated, and at the interval of time from 1988 to 1996 and in 2000–2008 erosion processes dominated. The 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 curves are in almost one field, which attests to the stability of the Turiya River over the last decade. The development of channel deformations depends, mainly, on the hydrological regime of the river. The dynamics of erosion-accumulation processes along the river Turiya is consistent with the long-term regime of its maximum runoff: in the 80-ies of the last century a significant fall in the values of maximum discharge (some decrease in annual precipitation, the influence of the Kovel reservoir) was observed, which led to their erosion. Compared to this time period, around the 1990s and during the 2000s, the values of maximum discharge increased slightly. As a consequence, the eroding ability of the watercourse during floods and freshets increased, which slightly increased the cross-sectional area of the channel. In the last four years, the values of maximum discharge have been significantly lower than normal, and as a result erosion processes have weakened. Reduction of the maximum discharge of the Turiya River, absence of runoff during the 2015–2018 boundary, dominance of accumulative processes in the channel leads to eutrophication of the watercourse, which, in turn, reduces its transport capacity and contributes to the further accumulation of solids. If this trend continues in the future, then the risks of flooding the Turiya floodplains in the event of heavy floods or freshets will increase.

The article analyzes the current problems of land management for agricultural land use in Ukraine, because fertile land is the basis of civilized human life, and their condition, to a large extent, reflects the health of any nation. Therefore, the intensive exploitation of land to complete exhaustion without the use of improving measures is a complete environmental suicide. Soil is not only the main condition for the existence of human society, but also the most important source of national wealth, a universal factor in any human activity. In agricultural production, land is the main mode of production, without which the process of manufacturing of crop and livestock production is impossible, is both an object and a means of labor, determines not only the pace of development, but also the level of efficiency of agricultural production. Directions for the formation of soil protection restrictions in the use of agricultural land for lease land use are justified, in particular: agricultural land plots for commercial agricultural production should be used in compliance with the established terms for the return of individual crops in accordance with the permissible types and types of crop rotation according to land management projects, and also landowners and land users in the implementation of ho business activities are obliged to inform the executive authorities and local governments on the quality condition, degradation and pollution of land plots, on the sown area of crops grown on them, with the obligatory registration of the relevant changes in the land cadastre.