Current theoretical and methodological approaches to characteristics of adaptive management of the local territories economy[Актуальные Теоретико-Методологические Подходы К Характеристике Адаптивного Управления Экономикой Локальных Территорий]

In 2020 the global community faced another global challenge – COVID-19 new coronavirus infection, which caused the global economic crisis as a consequence of the pandemic. It is ever more obvious that the emergence of global economic crises is of cyclical nature. We assume that the existing mechanisms and tools of socio-economic development in local areas can be characterized as insufficiently adaptable to emerging global challenges, hence, their negative consequences are aggravated. The approaches to the regional and municipal socio-economic development management should be improved. This can be applied through the introduction of adaptive management mechanisms into the territorial socio-economic development management system. The given article analyzes and generalizes the approaches of domestic and foreign economic schools on the researched issue. The purpose of this research is to consider, analyze and generalize theoretical and methodological approaches to characterizing the adaptive management of the economy of a local territory (region, municipality) under economic recession. Research methods and object. General scientific methods of inquiry are used, including theoretical analysis, synthesis (including interdisciplinary), generalization, comparison, induction, deduction, etc. The object of the research is economic relations in terms of formation and implementation of an adaptive management model of socio-economic development of local territories. Results. The results of the evolutionary-terminological analysis of the 'adaptive management' concept are provided, the author's definition of 'adaptive management' is formulated, characterizing it in the context of managing socio-economic development of local territories under global challenges, which was adjusted with reference to considation of results of the currently developed scientific approaches to the adaptive management characteristics and the relevant subject area specifics. Conclusions. The authors emphasize a rather 'young' age of the adaptive management concept (from the 70-s of the XX-th century), and at the same time, an increasing interest to adaptive approaches use in an expanding range of fields (including public administration, healthcare, transport, business, information technologies, energy, international development, agriculture, ecology and natural resource management, etc.). Adaptive management of socio-economic development of local territories under global challenges can be defined as a conscious and normatively fixed public (municipal) policy ensuring stress resistance of the territorial socio-economic development, including through the efficient implementation of a mechanism for preventing, arising and overcoming crisis situations, as well as quick reaction to changing conditions of internal and external environment to achieve the planned results.