Shkuratov O. Scientific and methodological foundations of ensuring environmental safety in the agricultural sector of Ukraine.

This thesis deals with essence and content of environmental safety in the agricultural sector and clarifies the conceptual and categorical apparatus on research. The author summarizes and deepens conceptual points of organizational and economic ensuring environmental safety in the context of the modern paradigm of sustainable development of the agricultural sector. This thesis substantiates theoretical and methodological foundations of organizational economic ensuring environmental safety in the agricultural sector. The author substantiates structural and logical model of a system of organizational economic ensuring environmental safety in the agricultural sector. The author has developed methodological approaches to integrated assessment of the environmental safety level in the agricultural sector. This thesis analyses current state and identifies the major risks and threats to environmental safety of agrarian sector of Ukraine. The author estimates level of environmental safety in the agricultural sector of Ukraine's regions. This thesis describes trends of improving the system of organizational economic ensuring environmental safety in the agricultural sector. The author has improved theoretical and methodical approach to the operation of management tools in the system of organizational economic ensuring environmental safety of agrarian sphere. The author gives strategic imperatives of environmental safety in the agricultural sector. This thesis deals with and substantiates scientific and methodical approaches to choosing a strategy of environmental safety in the agricultural sector.