Abandoned and neglected historical buildings are a common feature of many central European cities. The Interreg Central Europe Cooperation Programme has also recognized this issue, and it has ...identified deterioration of cultural heritage as one of the main challenges to be tackled within the program. Part of this program is also the project ForHeritage-Excellence for Integrated Heritage Management in Central Europe. The project builds on previous tools and experiences, pushing the results into the practice of the participating regions and beyond. Based on what was learned and the documents created in previous projects, a toolbox for cultural heritage management has been produced. The toolbox contains a set of six new, concise, and practice-oriented tools that focus on various aspects of cultural heritage management. Here, Murovec and Kavas discuss the tools.
•Agricultural payments were not associated with groundwater pollution with nitrates.•A-E payments are only effective in reducing pesticides in groundwater.•Direct payments and coupled subsidies ...increase pesticides in groundwater.•Results imply a problem of insufficient targeting of agri-environmental measures.•The evidence suggests that greening is necessary and entirely justified.
The European Common Agricultural Policy still follows its primary goals, i.e. quality food at affordable prices and a decent standard of living for farmers, fifty years after its adoption. Moreover, this policy adapts to the changing needs of society and the new challenges, mostly preservation of the environment, nature and biodiversity in rural areas. Although the Common Agricultural Policy receives the largest share of European budget, the funds are decreasing over time, especially direct payments, which aim to provide basic income support to farmers in the European Union. On the other hand, agri-environmental payments are gaining importance. Policy decision-makers should be interested in the question of impacts of growing eco-conditionality of agricultural spending. New insights would help them to be successful in achieving the goals of sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impacts of production support payments and rural development payments on the quality of groundwater. We use the small EU country Slovenia as an example. The baseline indicators are the level of nitrates and pesticides in groundwater, while the impacts were estimated using spatial error model. The results show that direct payments, coupled subsidies and investment grants raise the level of pesticides in groundwater, but do not have any statistically significant impact on the level of nitrates in groundwater. Furthermore, we did not find any statistically significant effects of agri-environmental payments on decrease of groundwater pollution with nitrates. However, our findings revealed that agri-environmental payments are effective in reducing pesticides in groundwater, although only to a limited extent. These results imply a problem of insufficient targeting of agri-environmental measures on the one hand, and suggest that greening of direct payments is necessary and entirely justified.
Murovec and Kavas discuss the Forget Heritage project. The project tackles an issue present in most cities characterized by unused historical buildings that have marked the history of the local ...community in various ways. This is not about widely recognized "A list" cultural heritage buildings, but buildings such as former factories, hospitals, schools, or barracks, which are a backdrop and often invisible to the public eye.
Ovaj se rad bavi istraživanjem poslovnih zona u slovenskim i hrvatskim dijelovima Istre. Sadašnju situaciju karakterizira netransparentnost u pogledu broja, opsega i rasprostranjenosti razvojnih ...područja. Analiza je provedena usporednom metodom kako bi se utvrdila postojeća situacija i potencijalna rješenja za efikasniju ulogu tih zona u koncepciji prostornog razvoja Istre kao cjeline. Rad pokazuje da je potrebno uvesti poboljšanja u okvirima programske tipologije, ažuriranja podataka te upravljanja i marketinga.
The focus of the study was business zones in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. The existing situation is characterised by a non-transparent situation as to the number, extent, and range of development areas. In the study, we used the comparative method to determine the existing situation and potential solutions for a more efficient role of zones in the concept of spatial development of Istria as a whole. We found that improvements in the fields of programmatic typology, data updating, and the management and marketing system were necessary.
The book Prostor, regija, razvoj ('Space, region, development') deals with numerous issues, relevant for regional policy and sustainable regional and spatial development. The fields addressed, like ...monitoring and evaluation, processes of urban development, situation on the real estate market, creative class, creative industry, cultural industry, and natural conditions as a factor of spatial and regional development, show the diversity and complexity of the processes taking place in space and regions. From this perspective our ambition is not to solve all the crucial issues at one time, but to contribute to spatial and regional policy with selected studies, methodological approaches and policy recommendations. The chapters pave the way to integrated spatial and regional development, bearing in mind complexity of the field and knowing the most recent analyses. In order to support decision-making with the adequate knowledge, comprehensive studies should be further supported and later used in the policy making processes.
The publication “Monitoring and Evaluation of Regional Policy in Slovenia” was prepared on the basis of the Assessment of Instruments and Mechanisms of Regional Policy project intended for designing ...the systems for the mid-term and final evaluation of Slovenia’s regional policy. The project has prepared the basis for monitoring and evaluating the regional policy: we treated the monitoring of the regional policy as an important element in the overall development process because it enables constant supervision of the implementation of the policy and the evaluation of the regional policy as a constant interactive process that enables deliberate planning of activities and their adaptation to changing conditions. We focused on the characteristics of monitoring and evaluation in Slovenia’s regional policy and prepared evaluation models that Slovenia’s regional policy should follow in the future. Designing the models we drew from the existing Slovenian and European formal-legal frameworks for establishing monitoring and evaluation system in the 2007–2013 financial perspective.
The focus of the study was business zones in Slovenian and Croatian Istria. The existing situation is characterised by a non-transparent situation as to the number, extent, and range of development ...areas. In the study, we used the comparative method to determine the existing situation and potential solutions for a more efficient role of zones in the concept of spatial development of Istria as a whole. We found that improvements in the fields of programmatic typology, data updating, and the management and marketing system were necessary. BUSINESS ZONES CROATIAN ISTRIA DEVELOPMENT DOCUMENTS SLOVENIAN ISTRIA SPATIAL CAPACITIES SPATIAL PLANS Ovaj se rad bavi istrazivanjem poslovnih zona u slovenskim i hrvatskim dijelovima Istre. Sadasnju situaciju karakterizira netransparentnost u pogledu broja, opsega i rasprostranjenosti razvojnih podrueja. Analiza je provedena usporednom metodom kako bi se utvrdila postojeca situacija i potencijalna rjesenja za efikasniju ulogu tih zona u koncepciji prostornog razvoja Istre kao cjeline. Rad pokazuje da je potrebno uvesti poboljsanja u okvirima programske tipologije, azuriranja podataka te upravljanja i marketinga. POSLOVNE ZONE HRVATSKI DIO ISTRE DOKUMENTI RAZVOJA SLOVENSKI DIO ISTRE PROSTORNI KAPACITETI PROSTORNI PLANOVI
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