Solution of ecological problems is an urgent and extremely important task at the present stage of social economic development of Ukraine. Unreasonably high degree of economic (mostly agricultural) reclaiming of area causes spreading and intensification of degradation processes in ecosystems. Conservation of lands, including the one carried out by means of foresting of degraded lands, is the principal way to renature environment. The article concerns an issue of land conservation in the context of ecosystem services of forests.

The main peculiarities of land relations abroad are highlighted in the article. Basic principles of foreign experience of land use regarding market circulation of land, concentration of major land resources by right of ownership as well as the process and ways of reformation of land relations are generalized and systematized. Some peculiarities of lease relations, collection of rents and restrictions on title to land for foreigners are analysed. Some positive aspects are distinguished in order to use them in Ukraine.

The article describes aspects of maximum application of economic potential of land resources as an economic category for territorial organization of production. The author has analysed indicators of estimation of efficiency of economic potential of land resources on the territory of the region, where volume of gross output of agricultural production is considered a principal one.

This article analyses the current situation in land relations in Ukraine, when tenants of land plots on which they are located real estate, not selling all property, but only its part. Thus there is a contradiction. On the land, which is leased by a natural or legal person, with buildings or structures, who do not belong to him (the lessee of the land), and the other person or entity. In the solution of this conflict in accordance with existing procedures in Ukraine interested parties spent a lot of time.

In the article the basic problems of ecological land management in agricultural sector are viewed. The ecological and economic analysis of land use in agroindustrial production is carried out.

Land degradation is a topical issue not only in Latvia, but also in Europe. Even the real estate additional tax rate of 1.5% does not prevent agricultural land from overgrowing, and there is no other legal mechanism to control it. One of the mechanisms of prevention of land degradation process is reconstruction of drainage systems, change of worthless agricultural land (less than 25 points) to forest land or improvement and return of agricultural land (more than 25 points) to economic production.

The article presents the conceptual approaches to the development of the master's program ''Land resource management '' in National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. Marked conditions, labour market, issues, resources and perspectives of development direction. Great attention is paid to the formation of new ''growth points'' in the common European Higher Education Area, improving the management of universities, development of new skills among managers and teachers, leading to an increase in the level of education and implementation of Bologna agreements.

Justify the need for the activities of consulting organizations providing information services on the land legislation, the implementation of civil-legal agreements, land assessment, taxation, lease of agricultural producers and citizens of practical assistance in writing business plans and other services on land. The agrarian sector of Ukraine's economy is one of the dominant components of the formation of food security and food self-sufficiency, which forms 17% of the gross domestic product and about 60% of the fund of consumption.

The article discusses on the basic concepts of land relations. The analysis of the dynamics of the level of rent for the use of the land (a share), and is defined by its share in the structure of household income in rural areas is carried out. Conclusions on the welfare of the rural population are done. For the regions of Ukraine, which is not significantly different industrial and production potential, but have favourable natural resource factors for socio-economic rise, the use of land resources is an extremely important part of the development of economic complex.

One of the areas of strategic development plans of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the implementation of the provisions of the Land Code is to ensure the sustainable use and conservation of land resources through the formation of highly productive, ecologically oriented and adapted land use, through improved economic mechanisms of land management and state control over observance of the land legislation.

From a theoretical point of view, the authors have grounded a new paradigm of theoretical planning of land management, which is based on space definition of a complex of factors of rational use of the existing land resources in correlation of interests of subjects-land-users and corresponding land relations in the terms of support of a balanced social-ecologic-economic environment.