This article presents a methodology for evaluating the development potential of farms on urban outskirts, which forms an important basis for long-term (spatial) planning of the development of Slovenian agriculture. It uses publically available spatial and statistical data, and analyzes and evaluates the characteristics of farms that show their future development potential and tendencies: vitality and stability, potential to expand, potential for conflicts, quality and structure of farmland, and effects of spatial planning and special protection measures on their development potential. This methodology is used to evaluate farms on urban outskirts, where development factors differ from those in areas with less favorable farming conditions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38578989
This article analyzes the legal frameworks of participatory planning in Alpine countries and assesses its role in achieving more sustainable spatial development in the Alps. Our research analyzed twenty-seven legal acts from seven Alpine countries and shows that the role of stakeholder participation in spatial planning has gradually increased. However, participation still remains at a rather unsatisfactory level, mainly because of its pro-forma character and practitioners' insufficient knowledge on how to implement it. To increase the use of participatory processes, it is important 1) to convince planning stakeholders that participation is a key instrument in ensuring sustainable spatial development and 2) to inform practitioners about participatory methods and techniques.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38573101
The spatial constraints of farms in Slovenia have never been systematically studied before; however, this is an important developmental aspect of agriculture, as stated by experts in spatial planning, agricultural economics, and geography. This article presents the concept of farms’ spatial constraints within settlements and their effect on farms’ development potential, proposes a methodological framework for measuring them, and reveals the relation between farms’ spatial constraints and urbanization.
In the paper we focused on the spatial development in the Alps by comparing results of two analyses. The first analysis addressed development issues of the Alpine municipalities, and the other transnational spatial development issues as defined by 32 selected documents, strategies and plans. The comparison showed the gap in perception of crucial development issues between local and national/transnational level. To enable more sustainable spatial development we capitalized the knowledge of various Alpine Space project and designed recommendations forfivecrucial fields, such as: networking, links between the urban centres and their hinterland, access to services of general interest, climate change and natural risk preparedness, and the governance and participatory planning.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39060781