ОRGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE’S ACTIVITY ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The issue of sustainable development has become very popular not only in research but also in practice recently. There are changes in views, approaches, and positions. New documents have been appearing in the political sphere of states on sustainable development and its achievement. Extensive discussions are held in scientific and political circles on the understanding of sustainable development and its conceptual justification. Statistics are provided, advisory bodies with public representation are created, state bodies responsible for sustainable development are determined, and so on. State reports on such activities are presented in international forums to demonstrate best practices. Certainly, this issue is debatable. Ukraine is introducing the experience of foreign countries. In fact, Ukraine acts as importers of foreign experience and try to adapt it to the domestic socio-cultural tradition. Unfortunately, Ukraine is not an exporter of its own experience and does not offer achievements in sustainable development to other states. According to this situation, foreign concepts, approaches and theories are also mostly used in the Ukrainian scientific sphere, which are adapted to Ukrainian realities and are proposed for implementation. There is a theoretical explanation of the concept of “sustainable development”, there are conceptual approaches and there is a practical and political interpretation of this category. The article demonstrates the government’s activities to create organizational and advisory structures responsible for sustainable development, on the examples of Ukraine and countries whose experience is implemented in Ukraine. The study showed a difference of views on the problems of building government organizational structures and advisory bodies on sustainable development in Ukraine and countries whose experience is implemented by Ukraine. There is a difference between the definitions of sustainable development in legislation and science of Ukraine. This leads to constant changes in the construction and liquidation of organizational structures and advisory bodies for sustainable development, and leads to instability of vectors of sustainable development, and a return to traditional and stereotypical management actions. Previous studies have not considered the government’s efforts to establish organizational and advisory structures responsible for sustainable development in the organizational and legal context.