Increasing Local Community Resilience in the EU-Ukraine Cross-Border Area

• Authors: Khrystyna Prytula , Ewa Łaźniewska , Anna Maksymenko , Yaroslava Kalat , Olha Demedyuk

Abstracts

EN

Nowadays, the development of local communities is hindered by crises, external shocks, and disturbance. Under such circumstances, an important characteristic is their resilience, i.e. the ability to withstand negative external influences and ensure further growth. Border communities are particularly sensitive to external stresses stemming from geopolitical and economic changes. The article aims to identify key determinants and indicators of territorial community resilience in the EU-Ukraine cross-border area. The methodological foundations of the research comprise the main provision of economic theory, regional development, and spatial economy theory, etc. The methods of comparative, economic, and statistical analysis are used in the study of various dimensions of community resilience. The main results of the study of the peculiarities of socioeconomic development of Ukraine’s border communities and existing opportunities for the use of instruments of cross-border cooperation derive from a sociological survey based on the expert opinion method.

Keywords

EN

territorial community; resilience; cross-border cooperation; EU-Ukraine cross-border area

• Publisher: University of Warsaw - Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) and Regional Studies Association - Polish Section
• Journal: Studia Regionalne i Lokalne
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-39

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Khrystyna Prytula

• State Institution “Institute of Regional Research named after M.I. Dolishniy of the NAS of Ukraine”, Sector of Cross-Border Cooperation, Kozelnytska str. 4, 79026 Lviv

• https://orcid.org/0000000338462393

author

Ewa Łaźniewska

• Poznań University of Economics and Business, Department of Business Activity and Economic Policy, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000227842190

author

Anna Maksymenko

• State Institution “Institute of Regional Research named after M.I. Dolishniy of the NAS of Ukraine”, Sector of Cross-Border Cooperation, Kozelnytska str. 4, 79026 Lviv

• https://orcid.org/0000000240146501

author

Yaroslava Kalat

• State Institution “Institute of Regional Research named after M.I. Dolishniy of the NAS of Ukraine”, Sector of Cross-Border Cooperation, Kozelnytska str. 4, 79026 Lviv

• https://orcid.org/0000000303906986

author

Olha Demedyuk

• State Institution “Institute of Regional Research named after M.I. Dolishniy of the NAS of Ukraine”, Sector of Cross-Border Cooperation, Kozelnytska str. 4, 79026 Lviv

• https://orcid.org/0000000219422161

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7366/1509499519502

Biblioteka Nauki

36460892