UDC 332.1:504.06:628.4:330.341.1; JEL Q53, Q58, R11, O31, H72
Kolodiychuk, I. A. (2026). Obgruntuvannya orhanizatsiyno-ekonomichnoho mekhanizmu vprovadzhennya innovatsiy u sferi upravlinnya vidkhodamy [Substantiation of the organizational-economic mechanism for implementing innovations in the waste management sector]. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 177 (1) (pp. 61-67). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2026-1-9 [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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Resume

The article substantiates the organizational and economic mechanism for implementing innovations in waste management within mountain territorial communities of the Carpathian region. The study draws on a retrospective analysis of capital investment dynamics in waste management across the region's four oblasts (Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Chernivtsi) for the period 2020–2024, which revealed a state of innovative insufficiency in the current system and pronounced territorial heterogeneity in investment allocation. The year 2024 marked a structural turning point, as investment flows were sharply redirected towards the development of waste processing capacities. Lviv oblast demonstrated a model of concentrated resource accumulation, with the share of sectoral investments reaching 68.2 per cent (approximately 470 million hryvnias). Zakarpattia oblast, by contrast, exhibited a pattern of dispersed investment across local nodes, confirming the feasibility of modular solutions for mountain territories. Ivano-Frankivsk oblast recorded a threefold increase in waste management expenditures, while Chernivtsi oblast overcame a prolonged phase of investment stagnation. The mechanism integrates five interrelated components: institutional-coordination, economic-stimulating, organizational-infrastructural, information-monitoring, and social-integration. The institutional-coordination component establishes the legal basis for inter-municipal cooperation and the differentiation of regional waste management plans according to community types. The economic-stimulating component introduces the financial instrument of "Eco-dividend", based on the principle of ecological solidarity and horizontal financial equalization between territorial communities. Under this arrangement, communities that derive economic benefits from the recreational potential of the Carpathians direct a portion of their revenues to support the environmental infrastructure of vulnerable highland communities. The organizational-infrastructural component envisages the deployment of modular primary processing systems in highland communities and the creation of a network of local bio-centers for composting organic fractions. The information-monitoring component incorporates digital platforms for real-time waste flow tracking, including IoT sensors, GIS-based route modelling, and scenario-based forecasting using Big Data analysis. The social-integration component is aimed at engaging the business sector through mandatory sorting regulations and the formation of cluster partnerships. Adaptive management models have been developed for four functional types of mountain communities: highland depressive, tourist-recreational, foothill transit, and foothill peripheral. The alignment of the proposed mechanism with the provisions of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians has been established. It is concluded that the development of waste management in the region should be grounded in the principle of ecological solidarity, whereby every investment in vulnerable communities constitutes a contribution to the sustainable development of the macroregion and its integration into the circular economy space of the European Union.

Keywords:

waste management, organizational and economic mechanism, innovations, circular economy, Carpathian region, eco-dividend, territorial communities

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