Trends in regional development in Slovenia in the light of the goals of sustainable development

Vintar Mally, Katja (author)

Applying sustainable development into practice is an important national and regional policy goal in Slovenia; in addition, the countrys membership in the European Union further commits it to the goals of sustainable development. The research presented in this article is based on the use of a set of 32 economic, social and environmental indicators of sustainable development and the calculation of a synthetic indicator of sustainable regional development for all twelve Slovenian NUTS-3 regions in the period 2015-2019. In the final step, a synthetic assessment of the possibilities for implementing sustainable development in individual Slovenian regions is given, in which regions are classified into four different types. A comparison with the previous five-year period showed that Slovenia achieved progress in most of the socio-economic aspects of sustainable development analyzed, while the situation deteriorated with respect to environmental aspects. The largest differences among Slovenian regions were calculated in the economic area, and the smallest in the environmental area, which is also in line with the findings of previous research. There continues to be a development divide between the more prosperous western part of the country and the eastern part, which lags behind and for the most part also has poorer prospects for sustainable development. This trend is unfavorable for the balanced as well as sustainable development of Slovenian regions.

• Language: English
• Keywords: sustainable regional development, sustainable development indicator, statistical regions, environmental protection, Slovenia
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 36-51
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-133754
• UDC: 91:502.131.1(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 2410-7433
• DOI: 10.48088/ejg.k.mal.12.2.36.51
• COBISS.SI-ID: 81973763
• Publication date in RUL: 14.12.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European journal of geography
• Shortened title: Eur. j. geogr.
• Publisher: European Association of Geographers
• ISSN: 2410-7433
• COBISS.SI-ID: 45070851

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 01.01.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: geografija, regionalni razvoj, varstvo okolja, trajnostni razvoj, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P6-0229
• Name: Trajnostni regionalni razvoj Slovenije