The essence and significance of Sustainable Rural Development

Abstract

Object: To analyze the definitions of the concept of “sustainable development”, identify its inherent features inherent; determine its components based on systematization of scientific approaches to the definition of sustainable development of rural areas; concretize theoretical provisions that reveal the essence of the conceptual concepts of sustainable rural development based on diversification, including the goals of ensuring the sustainability of sustainable development, factors affecting the organizational and economic potential of rural areas and the main directions that ensure
this development.
Methods: Abstract-logical, statistical, expert, comparative, and structural methods.
Results: The sustainable development of rural areas is characterized by a diversity of problems. It presupposes sustainable development, ensuring satisfaction of the needs of present and future generations. This can be achieved as a result of providing rural areas with food, agricultural raw materials, preserving rural production and culture of life, implementing social development, preserving the historically developed landscape and environmental safety, and performing other functions that are implemented under the influence of the following interrelated factors: social, demographic, economic, environmental, infrastructural, and innovative.
Conclusions: Sustainable development requires not only the availability of various natural resources, but also the conditions of their interaction, which form the historical basis of rural habitat and form the means of production, labor, scientific and technical potential accumulated by national wealth. Therefore, the structural scheme of the organizational and economic potential of sustainable rural development includes organizational (legal, financial, personnel and information support) and economic (natural resources, material resources, labor resources, investments and innovations) potentials.