Resilience and Recovery of Ukraine’s Economy and Environment under Wartime Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis

Abstract

Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has simultaneously disrupted economic activity and natural environments, making resilience and recovery a shared imperative across sectors. This paper proposes an interdisciplinary view in which the economy and the environment are treated as two interdependent systems that absorb a common shock and recover through complementary mechanisms. Synthesizing evidence from maritime transport, agricultural economics, and plant ecology, it links AI-based optimization of shipping routes, cargo flows, and costs, the economics of maritime decarbonization, the competitiveness of livestock production under wartime conditions, and the natural regeneration of forests, medicinal-plant cenopopulations, and aquatic vegetation in war-affected regions of Ukraine. A conceptual resilience-and-recovery framework is presented, in which disruption is followed by absorption, restoration, and modernized renewal. The synthesis argues that integrating economic and ecological resilience supports a green, digital, and biodiversity-based pathway for Ukraine’s post-war recovery.