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2015” and “Complex programme for implementing at the national level decisions
of the World Summit on Sustainable Development for 2003-2015”.
Figure 13.1 shows the three main constituent parts of the national strategy on sus-
tainable development in Ukraine, which can be summarized as:
1. Environmental safety: conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, sta-
bilising and improving quality of the environment
2. Economic stability: building a socially effective and competitive economy with
adequate incorporation of environmental considerations
3. Social welfare: life expectancy of populations, family planning and rationalisa-
tion of personal consumption, improvement of the human environment, devel-
opment of social activity, provision for equal access to health care, social pro-
tection of vulnerable groups
Internationally Ukraine declared its will to transition to sustainable development at
the Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, where the Rio Declaration was signed,
and confirmed its intention to reach sustainability at the following conferences
“Rio+5” in New York and “Rio+10” in Johannesburg. In May 2003 Ukraine
signed the international Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
(UNECE 2003). The issue of development of the national procedure for strategic
environmental assessment (SEA) was postponed for many years. This was due to
a variety of reasons; however the main reason was the inert attitude of officials
towards the legal status of environmental assessment (Palekhov 2007). The new
“Concept of the national environmental policy of Ukraine for the time period up to
2020” (2007) adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers Order No. 880-p for the first
time officially sets the target to implement SEA into practice for regional plan-
ning, sectoral and spatial planning and for management of natural resources.
SOCIETY
environmental
safety
social
welfare
Sustainable
development
ENVIRONMENT
ECONOMY
economic
stability
Fig. 13.1. Concept of sustainable development in Ukraine (adapted from: IUCN 2006, p. 2)
 
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