Екологічний менеджмент в діяльності аграрних підприємств

English

Environmental management in the activities of agricultural enterprises

Abstract. Introduction. Nowadays, the issue of ecologisation and ecological activity in various spheres of human activity, including agriculture, is one of the most significant topics. Taking into account the threats arising from the misuse of bioresources and negligent use of subsoil in the course of business activities, the issue of developing an effective environmental management system and finding active measures to support the environment has now arisen. The connection of business with the social and ecological environment is aimed at combining the two aspects of obtaining economic benefits from business activities and reducing the negative impact on the environment. The outlined issues confirm the relevance of the study on this matter and create the need for further theoretical and methodological research in this area. The purpose of the article is to study the peculiarities of implementation of environmental management systems in the activities of agricultural enterprises. Materials and methods. The basis for the study is the theoretical and methodological material, which highlights the theoretical provisions, developments and conclusions of Ukrainian and foreign scientists who have conducted research in the field of environmental management. In the course of the empirical research, the author's own assumptions and conclusions, as well as statistical information from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine were used. The logical and structural components of the study are based on the use of scientific approaches: systematic, situational, logical, dialectical and functional. Such scientific methods as analysis and synthesis, monographic method, calculative and constructive method, point assessment method, expert evaluation method, etc. were also applied. Results. The article examines the specifics and peculiarities of implementation of environmental management systems in the activities of agricultural enterprises. In particular, the analysis of the definition of ‘environmental management’ allowed to propose own definition of this term. The analysis of the tasks of the management system of agricultural enterprises related to the ecologisation of their activities and the proposed basic model of the environmental management system allowed to develop proposals for building an effective environmental management system. The proposed methodology for determining the criterion indicator of the importance of the ecological aspect has made it possible to outline the signs that indicate that an agricultural enterprise has a rather high level of environmental risk. Discussion. In further scientific research, we believe that attention should be focused on the development of effective ways to transform the domestic agricultural business sector into a ‘green economy’. Such measures will contribute to the development of the agrarian sector and the country's economy in general; occupying a certain niche in the field of agricultural product safety in the global market; strengthening interaction with business partners at the micro and macro levels; improving the living standards of the population residing in its territory, etc.

Keywords: management; environmental activities; agricultural sector