Title: Development of land management science in Ukraine: history, modernity, prospects
Abstract: Goal. Retrospective analysis of the directions of institutionalization and development of land management science in Ukraine during the 60 years of functioning in Ukraine of specialized research and design and survey institutions, as well as the determination of promising directions of development of modern land management science. Methods. The dialectical method of knowledge — to study the state and development of modern land management science; monographic method — to elaborate scientific works and scientific and technical publications, normative legal framework, statistical information; abstract-logical — to theoretically generalize and formulate conclusions. Results. The main historical preconditions of institutionalization of land management in Ukraine are investigated. The most important scientific works, as well as work with land management, rational use, and protection of land, are executed by the land management institute from the moment of its foundation to modernity. The priority tasks of land management science at different stages of development, as well as the task of the medium-term perspective, are considered. Conclusions. Institutionalization of land management science thanks to the creation of a specialized research and design and survey institution over the past 60 years made it possible to form a reliable foundation for the development of the Ukrainian land management scholarship, the study of objective laws of nature and society in the use of land resources, solving the scientific basis of socio-economic and environmental land-use problems, including global challenges. The priority tasks of scientific support become a digital transformation of land management, the development of progressive tools for land use planning, as well as protection of land in conditions of market land relations.