Delivering a national spatial development strategy: a success story?

ABSTRACT

The Slovenian national planning policy has been in a renewal process since 2014. The process required an evaluation to reveal to which level the defined measures have been delivered and discuss the policy’s future role. The mixed-methods evaluation approach consisted of a document analysis, a questionnaire with local communities and interviews with representatives of the ministries. Implementation of measures depends on multiple factors: capacity, personal priorities of actors, interpretation skills, financial support, political will for co-operation, etc. The potential to mitigate the influence of factors on implementation through a co-evolutionary trend of planning is elaborated in the light of Europeanization.

KEYWORDS:

• Strategic planning
• national planning policy
• evaluation
• co-evolutionary planning
• actor-based approach

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Funding

This work was supported by Slovenian Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning (Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia) [grant number 2430-13-391032] in the period from October 2013 to March 2014.