The article is based on research findings obtained in the 1990s when the Centre for Spatial Sociology of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences conducted a research ...project on changes in residential and working environments and in public town sphere in the City Municipality of Koper. The spatial and sociological research, which was part of the comprehensive undertaking entitled Koper Development Project 2020, was commissioned by the City Municipality of Koper and the Spatial Planning Office of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. Its findings were used as the starting point for the investigation into post-transition successfulness of local/regional working environments in the City Municipality of Koper and the entire coastal region. The article first sheds light on conceptual bases for new forms of regionalism, deindustrialization processes and transition to post-Fordist models of organizational cultures. Then it summarizes the results of the analysis of economic transition in local and regional working environments in the 1990s. It not only highlights comparative development advantages of the region at the beginning of the transition period, but also draws the reader's attention to the prevailing Fordist organizational culture imbued with distrust of employees and autarkic views of the future development of regional working environments marked by very pronounced fear of foreigners. The central part of the article analyzes post-transition successfulness of the local and regional working environments, with the analysis being based on interviews with important others in the local/regional area. The analysis shows that the majority of envisaged development strategies of the 1990s have not been realized owing to the predominance of the political sub-system over the working environments, which resulted in political depletion of positive atmosphere created by new regionalism. Local/regional post-transition economy has thus not managed to profit from new regionalism and inherent comparative development advantages of the region. Both the City Municipality of Koper and the entire region still have to introduce inevitable changes into their organizational culture, in particular when it comes to the major economic entities in the region that have to find appropriate manners of facilitating the development of individual and group potentials and of fostering such organizational culture that will be open to difference. The research findings of the Koper Development Project 2020 offer a firm basis for future reflection of social and spatial challenges faced by the Municipality and the region. Adapted from the source document.
Mestna občina (MO) Koper je ena od študij primera v evropskem raziskovalnem projektu PLUREL1. Namen projekta je razviti nove strategije in orodja za načrtovanje ter napovedovanje prihodnjih rab ...prostora. Za MO Koper so bili ≫preigrani≪ trije scenariji mogočeprihodnje rabe zemljišč, ki so bili na podlagi številnih kazalcev in trendov prostorsko opredeljeni z modelom MOLAND2. Model temelji na prostorski dinamiki, glavna spremenljivka v njem pa je raba zemljišč. Na podlagi različnih scenarijev se z modelom projicirajo spremembe rabe zemljišč v prihodnosti glede na vrsto rabe in sprememba se prostorsko opredeli. : The Municipality of Koper is one of the case studies in the European research project PLUREL. The project isaimed at developing new strategies and tools for future land use planning and prediction. Some scenarios for possible future land use have been prepared and spatially defined, based upon different indicators and trends, using the MOLAND model. The model is basedon spatial dynamics, a key variable being the land use and the state of each cell is its land use class (e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, forest, agricultural land etc.). Based on the developed storylines of the scenarios, the model simulates changes in future land use and spatially defines the changes.
Changed legislation of spatial planning in 2002 in Slovenia (Act on Spatial Planning – ZureP) demanded from agriculture and other sectors, guidelines or professional basis for further sectoral ...adjustments in the procedure of preparing of municipality spatial plan. By preparing of spatial plan of Municipality of Koper therefore expert base for agriculture has been prepared, followed with the strategy for the future development of agriculture and supplementary activities in municipality. Our approach of preparing them is presented in the article.
The article is an extract of the Report on the state of the environment in the Municipality of Koper and discusses the state of individual environmental components, such as surface water, sea, air ...and soil. It also presents problems with waste management and with management of terrestrial and marine protected areas.
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