Perceptual geography and its significance in the conditions of decentralization for polyethnic regions of Ukraine

Kostashchuk Ivan, Zakharchuk Ivan. Perceptual geography and its significance in the conditions of decentralization for polyethnic regions of Ukraine. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(5):352-361. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.05.028

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Received: 29.04.2022. Revised: 11.05.2022. Accepted: 31.05.2022.

UDC 911.37

PERCEPTUAL GEOGRAPHY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION FOR POLYETHNIC REGIONS OF UKRAINE

Ivan Ivanovych Kostashchuk, Ivan Volodymyrovych Zakharchuk

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University,

Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Kostashchuk Ivan Ivanovych - Head of the Department of Geography of Ukraine and Regional Studies, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor

Zakharchuk Ivan Volodymyrovych - holder of the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education, specialty 106 Geography, educational and scientific program “Geography”

Abstract

This article is devoted to highlighting the importance of perceptual geography as a socio-geographical science in the research of public perception of various geographical places, territories and spaces. Today, the process of decentralization continues in Ukraine, as a result of which a new administrative and territorial system has been formed in Ukraine since January 1, 2021. It is perceptual and geographical research that can reveal the mental peculiarities of the population’s perception of the unification of settlements into territorial communities, which form a system of consolidated districts. Therefore, the study of such features of the development of perceptual geography in Ukraine is quite relevant and especially significant for polyethnic regions, among which ethno-contact Chernivtsi oblast is a vivid example.

Keywords. Perceptual geography; cognitive geography; decentralization; polyethnic region; identification of geographical boundaries.