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The use of renewable energy in sustainable tourism development of the region is substantiated in the paper. There are three stages in selecting areas for projects on renewable energy sources: selection of the potentially suitable area; consideration of exclusion criteria; detailed assessment of potential areas. The impact factors on spatial constraints and the opportunities for building solar power plants, on the parameters of sustainable tourism development in the Carpathian region were determined. New research findings were obtained, the result of which was the concept and cartographic models of the environmentally safe location of renewable energy objects. New methods and methodological recommendations for the development of renewable energy in the Carpathian region were described as prospective taking into account the constraints on the parameters of environmental safety and tourist use of the territory.

Purpose. To substantiate the regularities of the influence of climate change on the quality indicators of surface waters of the Dniester basin taking into account the influence of waste water of the oil and gas enterprise.methodology. The ecological assessment of the quality of surface waters affected by the discharge of waste water from the oil and gas enterprise of the Carpathian region was carried out by determining the integrated index of water objects quality potential. The statistical processing of the database of hydrochemical monitoring of surface water bodies of the Svicha river basin for the period of 2006-2015, databases of the meteorological data from the Dolyna meteorological station was conducted and followed by mathematical modeling and regression analysis using MatLab, TableCurve 2D programs.findings. The analysis of the state of hydroecosystems where the waste water was discharged was carried out. A three-dimensional model of air temperature changes in the Dolyna district in Ivano-Frankivsk region during 2006-2015 was obtained. Correlation-regression dependence of qualitative indicators of surface water taking into account climatic changes was established. As a result of the conducted research the authors obtained the following results: the dependences found for the Precarpathian rivers of the upper Dniester basin prove the hypothesis: within the range of average annual temperatures of reservoirs (8-11°C) and their increase by 1-2 °C during the last ten years with maintaining the trend in the future: global increase in the average annual air temperature leads to the intensification of the processes of self-cleaning of reservoirs. The indicator of biochemical oxygen consumption (BOD 5 ) was increasing at this time. The conducted regression analysis proves that there is a certain correlation between the quality of water on the basis of BOD 5 and the long-term changes in air temperature. The greater the pollution of the water object is, the more intense dependence gets.Originality. For the first time the functional regularities of the change of the complex index of the quality potential of water objects according to the change in the average monthly temperature of air on the basis of statistical analysis were obtained. For the first time a connection between a separate indicator of the water quality of a natural reservoir (on the example of BOD 5 ) within the influence on the surface hydroecosystem of discharges of waste water from the oil and gas enterprise and the global increase of the temperature was found.Practical value. The results of the study can be used for determining the priority problems of surface water, for further prediction of the impact of climate change on the water quality of the rivers Turianka, Sadzhava, Lushchava, which are within the influence zone of the oil and gas industry enterprises, and will promote the development of scientifically proved measures to ensure the environmental safety of surface water and prevention of emergency ecological situations in the Carpathian reg...

Development in harmony with nature is a fundamental social paradigm, the realisation of which depends on fulfilment of basic conditions, namely preservation and restoration of the the natural environment as well as ensuring the ecologically safe functioning of ecosystems. There is a need to find a compromise between the social and economic needs of mankind and the potential of the biosphere to satisfy them. At the present stage of development of society, the tools based on economic interest are the most efficient for the effective use, preservation and restoration of ecosystem functions. The economic contributions of ecosystems are not fully taken into account in the modern economy. This is largely explained by the lack of a coherent scientific approach to defining their nature and lack of methodological tools for their economic evaluation. In this regard, the need arises for undertaking appropriate scientific research and the inclusion of ecosystem services in the activities of business entities. The concept of ecosystem services is based on the need for co-evolutionary development of environmental and economic components. There is no single approach to implementing the concept of ecosystem services that would meet the environmental conditions of every geographical site. Generalisation and systematisation of the provisions of the concept of ecosystem services, verification of the basic mechanisms and their adaptation to the legal and regulatory framework in Ukraine, examination of the conditions of ecosystems and their economic value are necessary for the implementation of the ecosystem approach in the sectors of the Ukrainian economy. The objective of the study is to characterise the progress of development and implementation of the concept of ecosystem services in Ukraine; to define and characterise the ecosystems in Ukraine that are particularly important for the provision of ecosystem services. Scientific principles and consistent patterns in the field of ecology, geography and landscape science provided the methodological basis of the study, which was based on a systematic approach. The cartographic method (based on GIS-technologies), the method of expert estimations and the statistical method were used. ArcGis and Mapinfo Professional software products as well as Google satellite images and electronic vector layers of a topographic map of Ukraine with a scale of 1:200,000 were used to calculate the area of ecosystems within landscapes and create cartographic material. Statistical and cartographic materials, reports from research institutions, regulatory and reference materials, scientific papers written by domestic and foreign scholars provided the information basis of the study. Scientific papers on the classification of ecosystems, ecosystem services and the implementation of the concept of ecosystem services in Ukraine have been analysed. The categories, size and area of ecosystems in Ukraine that are of particular importance for the provision of ecosystem services have been defined, their ecological condition has been assessed and the prevailing ecosystem services have been identified.

The paper presents the results of theoretical research on the resource potential of solar energy calculated by different methods for administrative areas of the Carpathian region; The advanced methodology of the estimation of the influence of solar power plants on the natural environment is proposed, which concerns the determination of the significance of the residual effects of renewable energy on the environment and is carried out after screening and mitigation measures and is based on the three identified parameters of influence: spatial, temporal and intensity of influence. The results of statistical analysis of observational data of meteorological stations of the studied region are presented. The results of experiments that study are dependent on power generation by photovoltaic panels from meteorological elements of weather conditions; it is proved that the amount of energy received significantly depends on the cloudiness and air humidity. At the same time, it has no direct dependence on atmospheric pressure and wind speed indices. The paper presents the results of the cartographic processing of quantitative indicators of the potential of solar energy for the arrangement of the objects providing renewable energy in the Carpathian region of Ukraine.