The article is devoted to the revealing of imperative requirements for the renovation of economic structure of coal-extracting territories, and to the elaboration of the recommendations to expand the opportunities of growth points’ creation in their economies in the conditions of limitations of economic potential engagement due to the obligations to decarbonize industrial activity. Based on the analysis of modern approaches to strengthening the development of coal-extracting territories, are revealed the need to combine the tools of regional, structural, sectorial, climate policies in the process of structural reconstruction of the economy of coal-extracting regions, and to engage the end-to-end mechanism of just transition without taking into account the attribution to any functional type of territories. The requirements are outlined for the economic structure of coal-extracting territories, relaunched due to the obligations to decarbonize the economic activity. The prospective is demonstrated to realize the economic potential of coal-extracting communities in the context of economic growth points’ creation based on cross-sectoral non-fuel usage of coal at the innovative basis. The opportunity is grounded to attribute the coal-extracting communities as the territories with special conditions for development due to the limitations of their development potential engagement caused by the obligations to cancel coal usage as the fuel. The need is proved to adapt the mechanism of just transition to be employed at the territories of recovery taken into account the level of infrastructure destruction. The recommendations are elaborated to expand the opportunities to create the growth points of the economy of coal-extracting communities in the conditions of limited engagement of their endogenous economic potential, in particular: avoiding the application of typical approaches to structural changes’ vectors at coal-extracting territories, and enhancing the role of industry in their economic structure; synchronization of just transition with the formulation of key features of the post-war model of economic development of Ukraine; creation of Just Transition Fund based on the European experience of just transition activity financing; updating the legislative basis of regulation of the problems of coal-extracting regions’ just transition.
coal-extracting regions, state regional policy, functional types of territories, growth points, recovery, just transition
The necessity to take into account the inclusive development principles in forming and realization of state regional policy is explained. The directions of the researches of inclusive development issues mostly widespread in Ukraine and in the world are studied, namely the generalization of theoretical and methodological basis of inclusive development and grounding of the national state policy of inclusive growth. Traditionally most developed are the problems of poverty overcoming and reducing the gap between different strata of population, widening the opportunities of efficient redistribution and poverty reduction promotion, as well as involvement of isolated groups of people into social and economic processes as objective components of inclusive development. Special attention is paid to the lack of theoretical studies and practical results of inclusiveness principles’ implication for the solving of tasks of regional socio-economic development based on structural changes, in particular, diversification. The author proves that the diversification of regional economy holds a significant potential for the realization of inclusive development goals. The legislative basis in the sphere of public regional management is analyzed in order to estimate the diversification prospective for the economies of regions of Ukraine. The paper reveals the insufficient orientation of state regional policy on the overcoming of narrow specialization of regions of Ukraine and, thus, its inclusive development. The limited concentration of state regional policy on the solving of problems of inclusiveness through only rural territories’ diversification is determined. The proposals to improve the state policy of regional development based on the implementation of inclusive development principles – using the potential of territorial socio-economic integration and diversification of regions’ economy – are suggested. This suggests the stimulation of: integrative role of the cities as economic and social development centers; development/improvement of interregional cooperation, creation of conditions for regions’ cooperation; strengthening of interregional connections; improvement of the access to populated regions; formation and development of new, unconventional for forms of economic activity in economic structure of regions; ecologization of economic activity; development of services sector with the specific accent on socially important ones; renovation of the specialization of regional economy. Due to the strong structural heterogeneity of regional space of the country, the author emphasizes the necessity of differentiated approach to each of the regions based on the accurate determination of the types of their economies’ structure and its grouping based on this criterion.
region, inclusive development, diversification, state strategy of regional development
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