Territorial impact assessment has recently gained attention as a tool to improve the coherence of sector policies with territorial cohesion objectives. The paper presents a method for territorial impact assessment and the results of applying this method on Slovenian energy policy. A two phase approach first disaggregates the problem into a threedimensional matrix, consisting of policy measures, territorial objectives and territorial units. The synthesis phase aggregates measures and objectives in physical, economic or sociocultural groups and observes their interrelation through an input–output matrix. The results have shown that such a two level approach is required to obtain complete and useful information for policy developers. In contrast to the relatively favourable evaluation of individual measures on the first level of assessment, the synthesis has revealed substantial and systemic weaknesses: considerable imbalance of energy policy favouring territorial effectiveness and mainly neglecting territorial identity as well as its counterproductiveness in reducing regional disparities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2404803
Understanding of public issues has been until recently prevailingly conceived on the presumption of their simplicity; implying that causeeffect relations can be easily understood and regulated by public administrators without interventions from public. The authors are opposing this assumption arguing that public affairs are becoming more and more complex. As a consequence, the truth about them is evasive, and the priorities and effectiveness of achieving the objectives can be viewed from several; equally valid perspectives. A new approach to evaluation of public issues should enable societal coherence while respecting the inherent variety in society. For this, active public involvement is required.
COBISS.SI-ID: 257309696
The paper deals with two types of response to landscape transformation processes: traditional topdown and bottomup approach. The latter is considered as an alternative to ineffectiveness of the top down approach as revealed by an analysis of European and Alpine national policies. The results of two research projects revealed the major success factors of the bottomup approach: attitudes of local people, their governance capacity, socioeconomic circumstances and development of local decision mechanisms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2356163
The key statement of the book is that complex social issues have to be considered mesoscoopic. This implies taking into account their ambiguity between primary meanings, which are basic for their understanding but at the same time disintegrating, and ther secondary, overlaping meanings, which are integrative in marginal topics. A comprehensive evaluatiion therefore needs to consider the impacts of the primary aspirations for others and for realisation of their own aspirations. Such mesoscopic approach is verified by 5 case studies, all involving complex scoial dilemmas which at present tend to be addressed in a simplified and therefore skewed manner.
COBISS.SI-ID: 264034048
The monograph is a result of an international conference Dilemmas in contemporary landscape architecture, which took place in Ljubljana and hosted most prominent landscape architects on international level. The invited speakers in the first part (Bruun, Steinitz, Bruns, Marušič) presented their views regarding meaning and role of landscape / environmental planning within landscape architecture. Speakers in the second part (Prominski, Hauxner, Schaefer, Ogrin) discussed theory of landscape design, presented landscape design critique and new trends in contemporary landscape design.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6510201