Institute for Local Self-Government Maribor

After more than a decade since the last attempt to establish regions in Slovenia, the debate on their establishement has resumed. The book 'Regions in Slovenia' publishes expert discussions on provinces as development or administrative institutions, regional dicisions, regional identities, regions of knowledge, regionalization, economic competitiveness, long-term sustainable development, functional regions, constitutional issues of establishing regions and other general issues. The published contributions represent professional starting points for the preparation of the legislation in...

This book was born from the joint effort of the professors and researchers of a university course on Comparative Local Development. It contains 25 articles on social, economic and institutional factors of Local Development, highlighting drivers of the development of settlements and regions in urban and rural spaces. The book has been organized according to the genre of the contributions as follows.

• Conceptual framework, theory, and measurement. This chapter contains articles designing conceptual frameworks, identifying theories, setting up models, measuring...