The Ukrainian people, with the votes of 90.3% of those who took part in the All-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991 in support of the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, confirmed their right to land established by the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. According to the Constitution of Ukraine, land is recognized as the main national wealth, which is under special protection of the state. The State Committee of Ukraine for Land Resources was established in 1992 of , which was directly subordinated to the Cabinet of Ministers and implemented the state policy in the field of land relations was carried out by the said central executive body.Beginning in 2000, the State Committee was transformed into the State Agency, which in 2008 was reorganized into the State Committee, then returned to its previous name, and in 2014 was transformed into the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre (State Geocadastre). For the latter body, the powers to implement state policy in the field of geospatial data infrastructure, topographic, geodetic and cartographic activities instead of implementing state policy in the field of land relations became decisive. Land relations are public relations concerning the possession, use and disposal of land. They are represented by a separate branch of law - land, which belongs to its profiling branches. This branch exists in direct connection with the basic (fundamental) branches of law that regulate primary social relations. Topographic, geodetic and cartographic activities, the sphere of national infrastructure of geospatial data do not belong to land relations. The activities of the State Agency have been directed and coordinated by five Ministries for 17 years. The implementation of state policy in the field of land relations has become a secondary task for the second body. The purpose of the studyis to analyze the process of transformation of public authorities on the formation and implementation of state land policy, its impact on land use in the state and justification of directions and ways to preserve the main national wealth. It is established that imperfection in the field of land use and protection management and the lease model of agricultural land use have deprived the economic motivation to introduce soil protection technologies in production, due to which most of the soil cover is in pre-crisis condition. A stable negative balance of humus, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium has been formed in agroecosystems. That was recognized as an urgent comprehensive program to neutralize challenges and threats in the environmental sphere, the National Security and Defense Council adopted a decision on this issue in March 2021.The paper focuses on the reference to state control of land use, supports the idea of improving the content of land monitoring and the procedure for its conduct, suggests ways to increase the role of state bodies in improving the land management system

The article analyzes the management processes based on the institutional approach to agricultural land use management and finds that so far there have been no changes in priorities in these processes, due to the crisis situation in such land use. It is substantiated that institutional support for the development of highly efficient and environmentally friendly agricultural land use is achieved through management processes aimed at the formation, full functionality and legitimacy of such institutions as: Institute of Land Management, Institute of State Land Cadastre, Institute of Land Valuation, Institute of Land Use Monitoring that complement and characterize each other. In this regard, the institutional framework for reforming land relations in terms of a deeper understanding of management phenomena, processes to ensure the implementation of social, economic and environmental values in society and ensure systemic development of land use should be changed. As the main tools for achieving highly efficient and environmentally friendly agricultural land use, public authorities should first of all produce universally binding socially necessary clearly defined requirements, norms, rules and regulations and monitor their strict implementation by economic entities. It is proved that the chosen approach reflects the needs of society in this area.

The negative consequences of illegal amber mining in Ukraine are analyzed. Emphasis is placed on the urgent need for a reliable assessment of the extent of illegal mining, determining the area of such sites and the necessary amount of their further reclamation. As part of scientific and technical research commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine "Development of a system for identification and monitoring of lands damaged by amber mining" in the northwestern part of Ukrainian Polissya selected 5 test plots of 100 km2 with the highest distribution of disturbed lands. The test areas have clear features and a significant area of merged contours. An integrated approach has been proposed for the identification and monitoring of such areas, which involves the use of multi-zone satellite images, mapping from unmanned aerial vehicles, and ground geodetic measurements. A methodology for such research has been developed. To automate the work on the basis of the free open source program QGIS 3.4.2, the structure was substantiated and a modular geographic information system was developed. Verification of the areas of disturbed lands on the basis of satellite survey materials and field geodetic measurements has been performed. Some results of researches of the sites of the broken earths in the Sarny area of the Rivne area which testify to efficiency of the offered technique are

The purposes of conducting an inventory of land plots and aspects of the legal regime of land use of historical and cultural purposes are presented. Problematic issues concerning the initial stage of the inventory of these lands within the settlements of Chernivtsi region are considered. The normative-legal basis for the establishment of protection zones of historical and cultural objects and their classification are analyzed. The peculiarities of the functioning of the program of land use and protection of the city of Kyiv and the distribution of the territory of the capital of Ukraine by historical areas are considered. The peculiarities of the inventory of land plots according to the Regional Program of Urban Cadastre Development and Spatial Planning for 2021-2025, which include objects of historical and cultural significance in the Lviv region, are described. A comparison was made between the problematic issues in the absence of inventory of historical and cultural lands, in particular the inclusion of objects in the databases of the state land cadastre, and the advantages that occur if the relevant inventory procedure.

The article addresses the question of the optimization of forest and agricultural land tenure in the environment of natural afforestation in accordance with the aims of sustainable development. The topicality of the research is predefined by the need for the increase of areas occupied by forests according to the legislative initiatives, need for the improvement of agricultural land, the improvement of ecology in the environment of insufficient afforestation. The resolving of the problem of self-afforested agricultural land plots in the process of land consolidation has been suggested. Approaches to the problem of natural agricultural land afforestation have been singled out, advantages and perspectives of land consolidation as compared to other approaches have been substantiated. The involvement of land plots defined as escheated inheritance and non-recalled land shares to the process of land reallotment at land consolidation has been suggested. The adjustment of the land reallotment methodology at land consolidation in the environment of natural afforestation of agricultural land has been suggested. As the result of reallotment, trees were kept on the afforested land plots, a joint consolidated forest mass was formed, the configuration of land plots was improved, road network was improved. The results can be used at the implementation of the Large-scale Afforestation of Ukraine environmental initiative, and in the following scientific research on land tenure and use spatial improvement.

The article analyses the current state of agricultural land use in Ukraine, which is characterized by extremely high levels of ploughing of agricultural lands, violation of scientifically substantiated crop rotation, and hence significant anthropogenic pressure on the soil, which in turn increases the intensification of degradation. The conceptual bases of formation of the system of rational agricultural land use in the conditions of transformation of land relations are substantiated. It is proved that such systems should be formed at the national, regional and local levels based on the principles of environmental friendliness, adaptability, biogenicity, variability, etc. using a landscape approach to the organization of agricultural enterprises. To ensure the conservation of soil resources and zero level of degradation processes, the main block of such systems, their basis should be soil protection and reclamation of the territory. Only land management should be considered as the main mechanism for the formation of a system of rational agricultural land use, and therefore the process of its formation at the national level should be carried out through the development and implementation of the National Land Use and Protection Program; at the regional level - through the development and implementation of regional land use and protection programs; at the local level – through the development and implementation of relevant land management projects.

Analysis of the pilot project of the comprehensive plan for spatial development of the territory of Pisochyn territorial community showed that failure of incorporate the requirements of land legislation in the context of the formation of sustainable (balanced) land use does not improve environmental stability and capitalization of land use as components of its sustainability. It was proposed to make changes and additions to the legislation of Ukraine on components, structure and content of the comprehensive plan for spatial development of the territories of territorial communities, zoning of lands outside the settlements which differs significantly from urban planned, especially the categories of agricultural lands, nature reserves and nature protection lands and defense lands. Improving the components, structure and content of the comprehensive plan for spatial development of land use of the territories of territorial communities based on European experience will reduce the cost of its development by 2-3 times. This is especially important considering that the state budget includes 187, 7 million UAH of subventions for the development of 150 comprehensive plans for spatial development of the territories of territorial communities in 2022(or 1, 25 million UAH for 1 project). Prospects for further explorations consist in researching areas for improvement of components, structure and content of the comprehensive plan for spatial development of land use of the territories of territorial communities, especially about zoning of lands outside the settlements which significantly differs from urban zoning.

The expediency of reviewing the development of the institutional environment of modern land relations has been established, as it is the main factor in the formation of a new paradigm of land management development. Institutions that together form the institutional environment of land relations according to the formal approach are proposed and characterized: institute of land ownership, institute of land use law, institute of land use payment, institute of municipality, institute of state control, institute of land accounting, institute of land use for agriculture, institute land use, institute of communication. It is established that long-term dynamic processes of interaction in land relations, revision and improvement of the institutional environment need to be modernized through the implementation of new institutions. It is emphasized that the trends of economic development and productive forces require a review of the balance of economic, environmental and social priorities related to sustainable use, protection and reproduction of land potential, which can be realized through land management measures. It is determined that at the state, regional and local levels the same institutions that affect land relations have different tasks, content and tools for the implementation of their powers in terms of use, protection and reproduction of land potential.

The article stipulates that in the course of agricultural activity land resources are, first of all, the property of nature, at the same time forming the internal component of the production process, as well as its generalizing aspects. In view of this, land resources are the main means of production in the agricultural sector and the physical basis for agricultural production, as well as an element of natural productive forces. The issues of assessing the level of ecological safety of agricultural land use are highlighted and a methodological approach is proposed, based on a comprehensive analysis of a set of criteria and indicators that most fully characterize environmental risks and threats to land use, taking into account the assimilation potential of agroecosystems. The proposed method of assessing the environmental safety of agricultural land use by ranking regions of the country by integrated index or individual criteria (indicators) allows to classify them by levels of land quality, degradation, anthropogenic impact and eco-destructive load on land. This will identify regions most vulnerable to adverse environmental impacts, which will primarily need assistance and prevention and elimination of environmental threats and risks in order to implement long-term and short-term plans for environmentally friendly agricultural land use at both state and local levels.

The decision to cancel land economic assessment out of the land valuation works needs scientific substantiation and consideration of the world practice of its application. The research aims to study how the concept of “economic assessment” in used in the world practice, as well as analyzes its essence and performed tasks. The article supplies analysis of the legislative and regulatory problems of development of the economic assessment of land, land resources and land use as an important economic instrument of land relations regulation and territorial spatial development of land use in Ukraine. The research examines the thesaurus framework concerning public requests for the notions of “economic assessment of land”, “economic assessment of land use”, “economic assessment of land resources” and “economic assessment of natural resources”, “land valuation”, “land use valuation” and “land resources valuation”. It is confirmed that the concepts of “economic assessment of land”, “economic assessment of land resources”, “economic assessment of natural resources” are less often used in the world practice as compared to such notion as “economic assessment of land use”. However, in the world practice, the most widely used notion is “land use valuation”, the second position is taken by “land resources valuation”, whereas “land valuation” is rarely used. It is confirmed that the notion of “economic assessment” is up-to-date and is widely used in the developed market economies. In Ukraine, the concept of “economic assessment of land” is not quite correct. To activate scientific researches and to shape the legislative and regulatory supply for development of economic assessment of land and other natural resources, as well as land use, the work clears up the conceptual essence, which should be interpreted as a money expression of economic or social value of both economic and environmental assets, determined by natural peculiarities. Findings of the research confirm that economic assessment determines the value of land, land resources and land use that is estimated by the effect, which the land-holder obtains from using the land or other natural resources within the ecosystem area. The research defines their targeted use. It is identified that the objects of economic assessment include land, land resources, land use, ecosystem services, land and environmental losses. Prospects of the further research involves studying the targeted use for effective employment of the economic assessment objects.

The article substantiates the need to update the data of land cadastral information in the effective management of the land-territorial complex of communities in Ukraine. The rights and obligations of territorial communities in the use of land resources within their boundaries have been established. The legal framework is considered, on the basis of which the right to use and dispose of state-owned lands in territorial communities is formed. The problems faced by the newly formed territorial communities in the management of land resources are analyzed. Priority steps for information accessibility have been established. The actual areas of work of the land department for the digitalization of land information in territorial conditions are determined. The positive aspects of the digital possibility of territorial communities in Ukraine are highlighted. The main problems of introducing digital registers of land resources into the activities of territorial communities are identified. Prospects are considered and measures aimed at overcoming the problems of digitalization of land information are proposed. Attention is focused on the need to create a single land registry in each new community, which in turn will improve land management and increase revenues to the local budget. The relevance of introducing open registers of information on land resources of territorial communities to attract investment is substantiated.

The article considers modern possibilities of geoinformation technologies for geospatial modeling of areas affected by amber mining in Ukraine on the example of Rivne Region. The purpose of the study is to present a methodology for decoding satellite image materials for geoinformation modeling of the areas affected by amber mining. The use of actual materials of remote sensing of modern satellite systems in combination with geospatial models during land monitoring is analyzed. It was found that the calculation of the NDVI makes it possible to identify the contours of affected areas more clearly. An approach for assessing soil cover moisture content based on the use of norm-difference water indices is presented. It is noted that the assessment of soil moisture is one of the elements of thematic processing of satellite images which makes it possible to identify the areas where amber mining by hydraulic method was carried out. It is offered to consider the method of geoinformation modeling of areas affected by amber mining as a method of practical implementation of determining affected lands using remote sensing images, due to the regularities and features of spectral analysis of a photo image. The use of the methodology is presented on a specific example, namely on state-owned lands of Dubrovytsia Forestry of Rivne Region. The methodology will provide a technical basis for the decisions on the identification of affected land plots and their further monitoring. In addition, the methodology offered in the article will help to determine the directions of land reclamation and groups of affected lands.