UDC 502.3/7.504.304; JEL С40, С43, С51, С80, І30
Kolodiychuk, I. A., & Kiptach, F. Ya. (2025). Otsinyuvannya ekolohichnoyi skladovoyi zabezpechennya rezyliyentnosti yakosti zhyttya naselennya rehioniv Ukrayiny v umovakh zovnishnikh zahroz [Assessment of the ecological component of ensuring the quality of life resilience in the regions of Ukraine under external threats]. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 173 (3) (pp. 18-25). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2025-3-3 [in Ukrainian].
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Authors



Kolodiychuk Iryna Anatoliyivna

Doctor of Economics, Senior Researcher

Leading Researcher of the Department of regional ecological policy and environmental management of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: ira1166@ukr.net, +38(067)81-17-182

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Kiptach Fedir Yasonovych

Ph.D. of Geography, Associate Professor

Senior Researcher of the Department of regional ecological policy and environmental management of the Dolishniy Institute of Regional Research of NAS of Ukraine

Contacts: kiptach@ukr.net

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Resume

The article examines the ecological component of ensuring the resilience of the quality of life of the population in the regions of Ukraine under conditions of external threats. The study aims to theoretically and methodologically substantiate and empirically assess the ecological determinants of regional resilience in the context of wartime destruction, environmental instability, and spatial asymmetry of natural resource potential. The assessment is based on the dominant anthropogenic load across Ukraine’s regions and integrates partial indicators of the state of the natural environment – air, water, land, and accumulated waste – into a single composite measure. An index method was applied with normalization of indicators using the min–max principle and their transformation into an integral index of the ecological component of ensuring the resilience of the quality of life (IEC). Since individual indicators have different units of measurement, ranges of variation, and directions of impact, all data were standardized on a 0–1 scale, which ensured comparability and integrative synthesis. Based on the assessment of the regions for 2014 and 2021, a seven-level environmental gradation was established, reflecting both the quality of the natural environment and its regenerative potential: (a) favorable; (b) moderately favorable; (c) moderately unfavorable; (d) satisfactory; (e) deteriorating; (f) tense; (g) pre-crisis. To assess the ecological component for the period 2022–2025, the analytical extrapolation method was used, allowing for the reconstruction of regional ecological dynamics under wartime conditions. A retrospective and predictive-analytical analysis of the IEC revealed the trajectory of Ukraine’s ecological transformation during two contrasting periods – pre-war (2014–2021) and military-adaptive (2022–2025). The results demonstrated that during 2014–2021, most regions, particularly those in the western and central parts of Ukraine, experienced a gradual improvement in environmental resilience due to stabilization of air and water indicators. However, during 2022–2025, the intensification of military actions and large-scale destruction of industrial, energy, and transport infrastructure led to the destabilization of the country’s natural and ecological framework, accompanied by deepening spatial polarization and the westward shift of ecological stability centers. Two distinct structural poles of ecological resilience were identified:(a) the western and partly northern macro-region, characterized by high integral index values (0.958–0.767), corresponding to favorable or moderately favorable ecological conditions; (b) the eastern and southern macro-region, with lower index values (0.571–0.294), indicating a deteriorating, tense, and pre-crisis environmental state. The findings provide a methodological foundation for assessing the environmental dimension of resilience and for developing targeted strategies for post-war ecological recovery and sustainable regional development.

Keywords:

environment, anthropogenic load, resilience of the quality of life of the population, assessment indicators, indicators, poles of environmental resilience

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