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Kiptach, F. Ya. (2026). Ekolohichni ryzyky ta yikhniy vplyv na rezyl'yentnist' yakosti zhyttya naselennya rehioniv Ukrayiny [Ecological risks and their influence on the resilience of the quality of life in the regions of Ukraine]. In Sotsial'no-ekonomichni problemy suchasnoho periodu Ukrayiny [Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine]: Vol. 178 (2) (pp. 62-67). DOI: https://doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2026-2-7 [in Ukrainian].
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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 size of the ecological risk is calculated as a derivative of the integral index used to estimate the condition of the natural environment, the resilience of the quality of life, and the vulnerability of regions of Ukraine in the conditions of external threats, and also in front-line and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The evaluation is based on four groups of indices: а) condition of air environment; b) condition of water environment; c) condition of natural terrestrial environment; and d) condition of natural environment as a result of waste accumulation. Maps-charts of integral indexes of the ecological environment of the resilience of the quality of life are developed for 2014 and 2021. On the basis of integral indexes of the condition of the natural environment, the following gradations of the degree of ecological risk are distinguished: low, weak, medium, above average, increased, high, very high, and extremely high. Comparing 2014 and 2021, the condition of the natural environment worsened in some regions. In particular, the degree of ecological risk is above average in the Sumy and Lviv regions and is increased in the Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya regions and Kyiv. It is especially high in the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The condition of the natural environment, quality of life, and vulnerability of regions of Ukraine are analyzed in the context of military operations in 2022-2025, in particular: а) increasing risk (tense environment) in the western regions – Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne and Volyn; b) high risk - in the central and northern regions; c) very high level of ecological risk (crisis environment) in the City of Kyiv and Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions, and also in the partly occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and the temporally occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea; and d) extremely high level of ecological risk (catastrophic environment) in communities close to the zone of hostilities (the Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions).

Keywords:

air environment, water environment, terrestrial environment, waste, ecological risk, resilience

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