The results of the European project ESPON EATIA, including preparation of the approach for the territorial impact assessment performance were introduced at the 32nd annual conference of the International Association of Impact Assessment (http://www.iaia.org/iaia12/) in Porto. Assessment has been performed on two energy policy directive, thus Directive 2010/31 on energy efficiency of buildings and Directive 2009/28 on use of renewable resources. Contribution is especially focusing on the question of the territorial level choice for which the impacts are measured, and the selection’s influence to the assessment’s results and their understanding from the policy and decision makers who use them. Results were summed up and presented for the EU level, considering the Territorial Agenda 2020, Slovenian national level (Strategy of the Spatial Development of the Republic of Slovenia) and the local level, the case of the municipal spatial plan of The City municipality of Novo mesto. The general findings indicate the positive impacts of energy policy on the territory no matter the territorial level. Diversifying the impacts between the individual NUTS3 regions was only partial which can be explained by the type of selected directive, by the performed methods of cluster analysis with which the number of regions was decreased from 12 to 3 groups and by the process of measuring the impacts in these groupds of regions. Convincing differences in impacts have been shown on the different decision making levels, hence it can be concluded that evaluation on different levels offers complete information about impacts for the policy and decision makers no matter their origin administrative level.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2477251Socio-Economic Impact Assessment (SEIA) represents the most widely used tool for determining the potential current and future social and economic impacts of proposed infrastructure and other development projects and for developing appropriate policies and measures by which the identified adverse effects can be mitigated or eliminated, and positive social and economic impacts effectively exploited for the benefit of communities in which the projects are spatially located. In Slovenia SEIA is not legally binding, for this reason its use depends on the content and nature of specific development projects as well as on the contracting entity's assessments. In the paper the final results of a partial SEIA of the new railway link site selection in the Pomurska region on the route Bad Radkersburg - Murska Sobota are presented. The assessment was carried out in the frame of the project »Feasibility study on setting up the railway infrastructure to the new V corridor between Bad Radkersburg and Murska Sobota« (PNZ, IBK et al., 2012) which was part of the international project TRILOC, in the framework of the Operational Programme Slovenia – Austria 2007-2013.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 2494147Observation mission tool is a Human Cities project product based on a compilation and adjustment of existing tools for public space analysis and evaluation as used by some of the partners of the project. It resulted from different, but mutually related approaches towards public space. Their common denominator was that they were all based on relationships between people and places. The tool has been designed for professionals and was set up to achieve a comparable analysis of different places, which are analysed from several points of view. In this respect, the proposed common tool has five dimensions: structural, behavioural, experiential, cognitive and receptive.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2478531In old ages people want to live as long as possible in their own homes, in the same, familiar living and social environment. This can be achieved by using information and communication technologies (ICT) and by moving care services in the homes of elderly people, to provide home care at a distance. However, as studies show, the elderly are very suspicious to ICT in general, therefore this article derives from the question of how and if at all elderly people in Slovenia are willing to accept this form of care services.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2495171School ground space was studied from different aspects addressing the importance and possibilities for its active use for education and training. Special attention was paid to explanation and understanding of consequences associated with the character of the school’s work and the benefits the outdoor space to pupils in comparison with the internal classrooms (e.g. learn through play, more frequent and active contact with nature, encouraging social interactions and cooperation, comprehensive development of personal and common attitudes, values and identity and, obtaining positive experience with quality of life in the open space). Based on empirical research and theoretical background general and detailed guidelines for planning and design of new or redesign of existing school grounds were prepared that may be directly used in the praxis. Guidelines for planning incorporate all aspects of the integral design, participation and inclusiveness, define the ways of the support and assistance to schools and are linked to formal and informal curriculum. Detailed guidelines define ways of connectivity between indoor and outdoor school spaces, accessibility, equipment and design for different parts of school grounds and their elements.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
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