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Socio-Economic Problems
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. Just energy transition in Western Ukraine’s coal micro-regions: pathways to sustainable development. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 172 (2) (pp. 3-13). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2025-2-1 [in English].
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Authors



Storonyanska Iryna Zenoviyivna

Doctor of Economics, Professor

Head of the Department of regional financial policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: istoron.ird@gmail.com, istoron@i.ua, (032)270-7043

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Patytska Khrystyna Olehivna

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher of the Department of regional financial policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: pelechata@meta.ua

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Dub Andriy Romanovych

Ph.D. of Economics, Associate Professor

Senior Researcher of the Department of regional financial policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: oak_an@ukr.net

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Benovska Liliya Yaroslavivna

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Researcher

Leading Researcher, Scientific Secretary of the unit of the Department of regional financial policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: lbenovska11@gmail.com

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Nestor Olha Yuriyivna

Ph.D. of Economics

Researcher of the Department of regional financial policy of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: olhanestor@gmail.com, (+38098)543-2885

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Resume

The article examines the problems and prospects of implementing the ‘green’ transformation of coal micro-regions of the Ukrainian-Polish borderland. The purpose of the study is to identify key challenges and threats to micro-regions in the context of economic decarbonization, as well as to identify ways to intensify the processes of equitable transformation, taking into account European standards and strategies. The article identifies the characteristic features of the socio-economic status of coal micro-regions, among which the key ones are the dependence of economies on the extractive industry, low innovation activity and limited employment in high-tech sectors. It is revealed that the transformation processes are accompanied by such challenges as job losses, loss of financial capacity of communities and limited integration into new economic models. The article outlines the directions of preserving the level of economic development of micro-regions of the Ukrainian-Polish borderland in the context of closure of coal enterprises: diversification of economic activity, development of renewable energy sources, improvement of mechanisms of state support and attraction of international resources.

Keywords:

Lviv-Volyn Coal Basin, just transformation of coal micro-regions, territorial communities, coal mining and energy enterprises, mine closures, war

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