Hazuda L. Management of integration and convergence processes of rural bordering territories

The object of study: the processes of integration and convergence of rural border areas of Western Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi). Objective: To develop theoretical and methodological foundations and practical recommendations for process management integration and convergence of rural border areas and their adaptation to European standards and further integration into European structures. Methods: a systematic approach, system-structural analysis, spatial analysis, logical generalization of abstraction, synthesis, comparison, induction and deduction, economic and mathematical analysis, statistical analysis, factor analysis, system-structural, forecasting, program management, strategic and structural and functional analysis. Scientific novelty: the first conceptual provisions effectively manage convergent-integrative rural development of border areas, defined methodological principles of process management integration and convergence of rural border areas, the author developed a model management mechanism of integration and convergence of rural border areas; improved process control algorithm integration and convergence of rural border areas, methodology for managing the development of territorial economic systems, approaches to the typology of regional integration formations.