The concept of “main purpose”, “purpose”, peculiarities of the change of the purpose of different types of ownership of land plots, stages of land management process of changing land plots purpose was explored. The existing legislative and regulatory problems and ways of their solution are found out.

The article deals with the results of the investigation of the land fund structure and features of land use in the Horokhiv district of the Volyn region in the conext of its administrative units. For this purpose, the level of agricultural development, the ratio of ploughed land, agricultural ploughed land, the share of forest cover areas, the ratio of natural and economic lands, and the mapping of the land resources of the study area have been made. Such research methods as comparative-geographical, mathematical-statistical, geoinformation modeling (using MapInfo Professional 8.0 SCP) are used. In the process of research we established that in the structure of the land fund of Horokhiv district on 2016.01.01. agricultural land predominates, the share is 79%. The highest share of agricultural land is typical to the Berezhanka (95%), Zhabche, Pustomyty (94%), Myrne (93%), Vatyn, Myrkiv, Mychlyn (91%), Gubyn the First and Skirche village councils (90%), since in these territories, in comparison with other administrative formations of the district, morphological and morphometric parameters of the relief are more suitable for agricultural cultivation, smaller areas occupy forest, flood landscapes, surface waters. The smallest share of agricultural land can be traced back to the land fund of Horokhiv (20%) and urban-type settlement of Marianivka (31%), since the large areas are occupied by built-up lands. Forests and other forested areas cover 10,5% of the territory. The woodiness of the most administrative units of Horokhiv district are only a few percent. It is the largest index in the southern part of the district, reaching the maximum values in the Pisky village council – 41%. The third position in the land use structure of Horokhiv district is open wetlands (4,3% of its area). The largest areas of marsh in Brany, Buzhany, Zhuravnyky, Merva, Peremyl, and Tsegiv village councils. There are no swamps in the Zhabche village council, urban-type settlement of Senkevychivka and town of Berestechko. Built-up lands occupy 4,0% of the territory of Horokhiv district. The highest rate of built-up land is typical to Buzhany and Tsegiv village councils and the town of Horokhiv. The smallest areas of built-up land are in the Berezhany, Myrkiv and Mykhlyn village councils. Land under the surface water occupies 1,8% of the territory of the researched area. The largest area of the water mirror is in the Peremyl and Kholoniv village councils, and in the Pustomyty rural council, the urban-type settlement of Senkevichivka and the town of Horokhiv surface water is absent. The smallest share (0,3%) in the structure of the land fund of the researched territory is open land without plant cover or with insignificant plant cover. The largest areas of this category of land are in Braniv and Tsegiv village councils, since the large areas are occupied by the outcrop of brick-tiled raw materials; such land is absent in the town of Berestechko, Skirche, Pirwenche, Mykhlyn, Lemeshiv, Galichanske and Berezhany. According to the structure analysis of the land fund of Horokhiv district, the natural mosaic of its landscapes is the most disturbed by agricultural land use. The share of agricultural land in the structure of the land fund of the investigated area is 77%. This indicator is highest in rural councils of the northern part of the district. Horokhiv district is characterized by extremely unfavorable structure of the land, as evidenced by a small share of natural and semi-natural territories (24%, and in many administrative districts not more than 10%), high coefficient of plowing of the territory (67,11% as a whole for the district, and in eight village councils is more than 80%) and agricultural land cultivation (87% for the district, and for more than half of district administrative units is over 90%). The reason for this is the presence of fertile soils, a large population density and a long period of agricultural impact on the land. For a more detailed ecological diagnostics of the territory of Horokhiv district it is necessary to assess the ecological ratio of the equilibrium of its territorial structure with the use of remote sensing data and laboratory research. However, the obtained information may also be useful for developing measures to optimize the landscape-ecological structure of the united territorial communities, which are created according to a new territorial-administrative system, as well as for preservation of land potential and reproduction of soil fertility in the region.

The place and significance of land resources in the air transport functioning are researched. It is shown that in the questions of land use it is expedient to apply management approaches, which forms the preconditions for a broader understanding of the exploitation issues. The purpose and functions that are realized in the context of the aviation transport land use (operation) are investigated. Functions might be differentiated into general and specific ones that are oriented by criteria-characteristics.The complex of processes influencing of the land resources structure of the transport industry is investigated.

In the article was analyzed the formation of the National Cadastral System was characterized, the model of the two-component cadastral registration system of Ukraine. The state land cadaster is a modern information, even geoinfomation systems for identification land plots. The outlines of the property are shown on large scale maps which together with registers, may show the nature, size, value, and legal rights. The model of formation of a multipurpose cadastre is presented on the basis of determining the appropriate directions, taking into account each of the constituent parts of the state land cadastre. As a result of the research, it was established that the multi-purpose cadastre should be open, high-tech and understandable; services must be client-oriented; current information must be available in real time.

The socio-economic and ecological results of the land reform in Ukraine are presented which are not characterized by unambiguousness. In particular, the socio-economic aspect of this period is the transfer of almost 52% of the land to the citizens from the country’s land to private citizens. At the same time, in the economic aspect, the level of utilization of agricultural land potential: in 2016 (with a grain yield potential of 50 centners per hectare), it was only 92.2%, and the level of land use in agriculture for gross production: in agricultural enterprises – 76, 2% by 1990, in households – 134.9% by 1990; in the ecological aspect, the ecological stability of land use, which declined to 97.6% compared to 1990 and is characterized as stable unsustainable; in the legal aspect, the level of security of the guarantee of rights to land ownership and doing business, which amounted to 46% of the required security by 2016. Such a state does not allow for the lifting of the moratorium on the purchase and sale of land plots of land parcels owners (shares).

National Network of Web-resources that provides public access to spatial information at this stage of existence, doesnot have single platform and structure, and is represented by a large number of unrelated websites. The article explores in detail the Ukrainian geoportals that are in high demand both among land survey specialists and among ordinary users interested in obtaining spatial data, and compares them with relevant European services, analyzes their content, advantages and disadvantages of both comparable parties in accordance with what is proposed the variant of structuring national web resources and ways of their improvement based on European experience.

As a result of the researches, the role of land management in the management of land and other natural resources, planning of land use systems within the territory of territorial communities is estimated. The significant problems in this process are revealed, the reasons for their occurrence, which are the result of ineffective system of public administration that is poorly adapted to decentralization processes in the field of land relations, are presented. In this regard, proposals have been formulated regarding their solution (legislative, institutional and organizational), and the expected results are presented in case of their implementation.

The gaps in land legislation in the part of solving legal and environmental problems of the internal organization of the land use areas of research institutions and educational institutions, rural vocational schools and secondary schools, non-agricultural enterprises, institutions and organizations, religious organizations and associations of citizens, citizens leading private peasant farm in Ukraine. Proposed before the adoption of amendments and additions to the Law of Ukraine “On Land Management”, to develop pilot land management projects regarding the organization of land tenure and land use.

The modern economy is connected with industrialization, the development of cities and new technologies. A new reality is when the gross domestic product (GDP) of individual cities, regions or districts is greater than its value for some developed countries, and the population density in such a region increases several times a year. All this form the new economic situation, namely, the economy associated with the city as an urban center. In the future, the focus should be on researching the factors that determine successful cities as emerging cities. It is also necessary to investigate which economic factors are dominant in the new centers, in contrast to the classical approach. The authors also consider it expedient to investigate the combination of environmental factors and real estate in suburban areas, as they affect the growth or decrease of population growth, and in the future, they can play a significant role in urban development in the urban center. According to the results of the research, we consider it expedient to introduce a new definition of the term urbanization based on research and hypotheses, as well as focusing on economic factors.

The article discusses the issues of digital atlas mapping, which is gaining momentum in recent decades. It substantiates atlas mapping as an instrument of visualization of various spatial and temporal information that reflects the properties of land resources, on which their value depends, trends in their changes, as well as the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on the value of land. The solution of the cartographic visualization problem is possible with the optimal choice of cartographic service, which can serve as the basis for creating interactive thematic maps of the digital atlas of the cost of land in Ukraine. Application of ArcGIS Online service enables the use of a wide variety of cartographic methods in the compilation of thematic maps. At the same time, there are currently no examples of creating atlases of land evaluation subjects in both paper and digital form, so the issues raised in this article are relevant. The publication analyzes the views of various scholars on the essence of atlas mapping of land resources, in particular, the value of land. It is substantiated that the atlases of land valuation subjects should contain in their structure maps of the following content: a digital elevation model; soil formation deposits and their properties; soils and their properties; agrometeorological, agro-geographic; economic (land valuations of different target destinations). The paper considers different variants of land-valuation thematic maps offered by domestic and foreign authors alike. Problems and tasks at hand, connected with the development of digital thematic mapping of land resources, in particular their cost, are outlined. Areas for problem solving in the fields of collecting, analyzing and generalizing information on the value of agricultural land and influencing on it factors, the cost of land in settlements, ways and means of displaying land value indicators on thematic maps of the digital atlas of the value of land in Ukraine are proposed.

The article indicates differences from the effective and efficient use of land resources. The effectiveness of the use of land resources from the point of view of different scholars is described. The generalization of types of efficiency of use of land resources is given. The factors influencing the efficiency of using agricultural lands are determined. The authors generalize the indicators of the efficiency of land use. The indicators of production and economic indicators of agriculture in Ukraine for 2011–2016 are presented.