Regional Development and Regional Policy

Regional Development and Regional Policy

Lectures: 30

Seminars: 15

Tutorials: 30

ECTS credit: 6

Lecturer(s): asist. Sitar Jasna, izr. prof. dr. Kušar Simon

Regional development; theories of regional development. Measuring regional development. Regional development in Slovenia. Regional policy. Balanced regional development as part of the regional policy. Contemporary approaches to regional development: subsidiarity, endogenous regional development, bottom-up approach, public participation, public and private partnership. Regional development and policy in Slovenia and European union: past experiances, normative acts, instruments (regional development programme). The concept of less developed regions. The role of municipalities at regional dvelopment.

• Kušar, S., 2005. Manj razvita območja kot element politike skladnejšega regionalnega razvoja v Sloveniji: pretekle izkušnje in prihodnji izzivi. Dela, 24, str. 113–124. COBISS.SI-ID – 30271074
• Kušar, S., Nared, J., 2004. Regional development in Slovenia. Slovenia: a geographical overview, str. 147–153. COBISS.SI-ID – 22550573
• Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A., Tomaney, J., 2006. Local and Regional Development. London, New Yourk, Routledge, 310 str. (izbrana poglavja) COBISS.SI-ID – 512237440
• Demografske spremembe in regionalni razvoj. 2019. Ljubljana, Založba ZRC, 300 str. (izbrana poglavja) COBISS.SI-ID – 301921792
• Ravbar, M., 2000. Vloga prostorskega planiranja v gospodarskem in regionalnem razvoju. Geographica Slovenica, 33, 2, str. 175–215. COBISS.SI-ID – 131501
• Aktualna zakonodaja s področja regionalne politike in prostorskega planiranja. http://www.pisrs.si/Pis.web/

Other recent literature available in the e-classroom.