Vernihorova N. Organizational and economic support for the sustainable development of city parks

The relevance of the dissertation work is determined by the need to ensure the sustainable development of cities and their territorial structure, taking into account the factors of recreational nature use, socio-economic development and modern ecological criteria. The growing pace of urbanization creates challenges for the balanced development of city parks in accordance with the health and recreational needs of current and future generations of citizens, inclusive development and preservation of natural resources and the environment. The work substantiates the conceptual idea that in the process of organizational and economic provision of city parks, firstly, a socially oriented approach is necessary, and secondly, ecological innovations, with the help of which it is possible to achieve positive social, environmental and economic effects for the development of the city as a whole. The dissertation highlights 5 main areas of implementation of organizational and economic support for the sustainable development of city parks, namely: improvement of the institutional foundations of the functioning of city parks and determination of the organizational and economic tools for ensuring their sustainable development; - determination of institutional traps in the structure of subject-object relations in the field of organizational and economic support of park improvement; - development of a methodical approach to comprehensive assessment of damages caused to city parks as a result of the Russian war against Ukraine; - justification of the choice of forms of public-private partnership in the field of sustainable development of city parks; - development of conceptual and methodological approaches to the design of the reconstruction of city parks in accordance with the challenges of the war and post-war periods. In the first chapter of the dissertation, the theoretical basis of organizational and economic support for the sustainable development of city parks is provided, the need for greening and the introduction of ecological innovations in the development of green infrastructure is substantiated. In particular, the essence of such concepts as: "park space" in the territorial structure of the city, "economy of park space" and "organizational and economic support for the development of city parks" is determined. In addition, the relationship between the "economy of park space" and the economy of the city, the economy of the region and the state is substantiated, and a number of factors that formed society's preferences for the characteristics of the space of city parks and their ecosystem services are substantiated. In the second chapter, on the basis of the analysis of the survey of residents of different cities of Ukraine, the key indicators of consumer preferences of residents of different categories of cities were determined and common problems and trends were identified, which allows for the development of strategies for the development of green infrastructure for small and large cities in the future, taking into account the features of settlement, territorial structure of the city, logistics and needs of citizens. In order to improve methodical approaches to the assessment of damage to city parks as a result of russia's military aggression against Ukraine, methodical approaches to the assessment of damage to city parks in the context of the post-war reconstruction of Ukrainian cities and sustainable development were formed. The third chapter of the dissertation proves the proposed hypothesis about the feasibility of implementing a socially oriented approach to the development of city parks. The expediency of allocating three directions of institutional support for the development of city parks and the corresponding toolkit according to their characteristic groups of ecosystem services - regulatory, cultural and supporting - is also substantiated. The relevance of improving subject-object relations is substantiated, namely: strengthening and specification of horizontal relationships between economic entities, management and consumption of ecosystem services of city parks. According to the actual factors of the development of city parks in the post-war period, the eco-innovation project of the marine park in the coastal zone of Odesa was substantiated in the context of the principles of sustainable development and according to ecological criteria. The proposed conceptual and methodological approaches to the creation of the marine park project are focused on the sustainable development of the local economy and correspond to the principle of "build back better". Keywords: city parks, organizational and economic support, sustainable development, natural resources, socio-economic development, sustainability, inclusive development, ecologization, ecological innovation, environmental criterion, ecological management, nature management, territorial structure, green economy, environment.