Eco-diagnostics of the natural and economic organization of Ukraine's territories: the agro-landscape aspects

In Ukraine, the optimal rate of arable lands has been exceeded, and the indicators of environmental favorability are much lower than the optimal level. The poorly balanced structure of the agricultural lands with a high share of arable area shows an anthropogenous overload of the agricultural landscapes. The article provides an assessment of the balance of the natural and economic territorial organization with the use of various methodologies. The rates of ecological stability, anthropogenous load, absolute and relative tension, and the integral rate calculated by the author show ecological vulnerability and critical level of territorial ecological protection, which is a consequence of excessive anthropogenous agrarian load. The failure to balance the economic load with a proper environmental potential threatens with unstable agrarian landscapes and lower quality of the agrarian production resources. Ukraine's rich available natural resource potential allows a well-weighted production of the necessary volume of agrarian produce and shaping a favorable environment.