Modern agricultural landscapes produce multiple ecosystem services. Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes have social, economic, and environmental value—providing a wide array of benefits to society. Absence of scientifically based and practically tested methodologies of identification, mapping, and evaluation of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes hamper integration of its values in the current system of land use planning. The value of ecosystem services is calculated for the case study territory located within the administrative borders of Kolomak Territorial Community in Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region (Ukraine). The highest estimated value among non-market ecosystem services is carbon storage service, and among market services—food production. The baseline scenario of land use (business as usual) is compared with two alternative scenarios (Scenario 1. Land reclamation scenario; Scenario 2. Land protection and bioenergy production scenario). Designing of an integrated production system in the forest agro-landscape, which combines multiple ecosystem services, allows us to attain maximum results in terms of value. Amelioration of agricultural landscape through establishing a system of protective forest shelterbelts allows society to increase the total value of ecosystem services, and this is why it should be better integrated into land use planning and land management.

З'ясовано, що вирішення таких стратегічно важливих проблем, як охорона земель, організація раціонального їх використання, досягнення стійкої екологічної та продовольчої безпеки, можливо шляхом як удосконалення методів управління — регулювання земельних відносин та землевпорядного проєктування, так і запровадження нового методу — адміністрування землекористування. Вони проявляються в прямому законодавчому або дозвільному впливі на користувачів земельних ділянок з боку державних та самоврядних органів, так і формування ефективної системи економічних важелів, які забезпечують охорону прав суб'єктів земельних відносин на землю, створення умов рівноправного розвитку різних форм господарювання на землі, формування і розвиток земельного ринку. Обгрунтовано, що створення системи методів та інструментів управління в Україні призведе до розв'язання існуючих на сьогодні проблем управління земельними ресурсами та землекористуванням. Evidently, solution of such strategically important problems as land protection, organization of their rational use, achieving sustainable environmental and food security, is possible by improving management methods — regulation of land relations and land management design, and the introduction of a new method — land administration. They are manifested in direct legislative or permitting influence on land users by state and self-governing bodies, and the formation of an effective system of economic levers that protect land rights of subjects of land relations, creating conditions for equal development of various forms of land use, formation and development of the land market. It is proposed in the article a method of state and self-government regulation of land relations that includes economic, land management and legal, organizational and land management instruments, which are implemented through differentiation of land tax and rent, compensation payments for withdrawal and conservation, payment for environmental damage and fines, legal regime and restrictions on land use, permitted use, administration of the land market process, establishment of land management regulations, distribution and redistribution of land, ecological optimization of land, as well as guarantee of property rights. Important tools for land administration by the state are both economic and land management and legal, organizational and land management instruments, for which the basis is territorial and spatial planning of land use and land zoning by types (subtypes) of land use, land use planning and land management, maintaining the state land cadastre, regulating ecologically safe and economically efficient land use. Land management projecting as a method in the system of land resources and land use management, has tools for prognostication of land use development, planning, land management, land surveying and state land cadastre. It is substantiated that that the creation of a system of management methods and tools in Ukraine will lead to the solution of existing problems of land resources and land use management.

The level of participation and performance of water user associations (WUAs) in drained and irrigated areas is influenced by many factors. This paper aims to identify the main challenges to the functioning and performance of these associations in Poland and Ukraine using the methodology of international comparative analysis. We examined legal, organizational, and financial framework of WUAs performance in Poland and Ukraine based on selected case study areas. The results of the study indicate that creation of WUAs in both countries can be assessed as beneficial for sustainable water development in general. However, it is found that the actions intended to bring benefits can actually exacerbate the problem of drought and water shortages. Research shows that the lack of complete documentation on the layout of the drainage networks plays a huge constraint factor that can lead to problems with controlling the reconstruction of drainage networks and significant deterioration of water relations. Another significant problem is the restriction of the scope of WUA activities in Poland to those types of actions subsidized by the state, while lacking financial resources for other necessary activities.

Motives: Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the issue of land legal relations has become of particular concern. The urgent task is to introduce the mechanism protecting the information of the State Land Cadastre from unauthorized interference by third parties, to ensure the rights of the state, physical and legal entities to enter data about objects to the cadastral system and to use this information. Aim: The research aims to identify ways to improve the mechanism of legal regulation of the State Land Cadastre under martial law that will ensure the restructuration and functioning of the agrarian sector of the economy, facilitate recovery of the infrastructure of Ukraine, as well as provide protection of the data from unauthorized interference by third parties, and counteract raider take-over of lands. Results: In the present research, a particular focus is made on the performance of the system of the State Land Cadastre under martial law in Ukraine which can be used as a reference point and a sample for the administrative decisions in other countries which are vulnerable to threats because of the national security.

Масова оцінка земель як передумова оптимізації системи оподаткування в Україні