
CROSS-BORDER TERRITORIES OF THE EUROREGION CARPATHIAN-UKRAINE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERREGIONAL AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT «SMALL CIRCLE OF CARPATHIAN»: PRESENT AND PROSPECTS
Author(s) -
Eduard Maliar,
Oleksandr Saliuk-Kravchenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
priazovsʹkij ekonomìčnij vìsnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2522-4263
DOI - 10.32840/2522-4263/2021-2-24
Subject(s) - tourism , context (archaeology) , cross border cooperation , regional science , joint (building) , geography , economy , economic geography , civil engineering , engineering , archaeology , economics
The article examines the initiation, formation and prospects of the Interregional-infrastructure project «Small circle of Carpathian», within the cross-border territories of the Euroregion «Carpathians-Ukraine» in understanding the economic characteristics of cross-border regions. It illustrated the historiography of the life cycle of the project «Small circle of Carpathian» as a logistics cluster in the context of the regional economy, from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level of development. Akso it noted the impact of the implementation of the joint project and described the future prospects of realization of tasks and objectives of project. The article outlines the place and role of each cross-border area of Transcarpathian, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in logistics and infrastructure development of joint project «Small circle of Carpathian». It demonstrated in detail the road infrastructure network of the project - general and separately for each region. In addition, it shows the close connection between the forest roads and the general network of highways of the joint project on the example of cross-border territories of Zakarpattia region. The tourism industry is singled out as the main factor in the development of the economy of cross-border areas within the project «Small circle of Carpathian»: it personalized types of tourism ans indicated tourist locations (places) along the route of the joint project. The article highlights the prospects of entry of cross-border territories of the Euroregion «Carpathians-Ukraine» to cross-border economic space of the Carpathian Euroregion as a whole (through mechanisms for opening new checkpoints at the state border: between Ukraine and Romania «Yablunivka - Remete (Guta)», between Ukraine and the Republic of Poland «Boberka – Smolnik», as well as in the Lviv region). The article prepares the basis for further research on ways to improve economic and legal systems of of international interaction of cross-border territories of the Euroregion «Carpathians-Ukraine» with the economic space of the Carpathian Euroregion in the sense of international economic cooperation with the member states of the European Union.