EVALUATION OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

In contribution, we presented an assessment of development programs from a sustainable view. We analysed the sustainable design of the selected local and regional programs from 2008 to 2013. To determine sustainability levels we methodologically used an assessment system based on ecosystem criteria, integrity and welfare criteria and self-sufficiency criteria, which was based on local community cooperation. We came to the conclusion that local and regional development programs were written based on weak sustainability starting points. Moreover, only few of them actually reached their planned results. For long- term sustainability the ecosystem, economic, social and ethical aspects need to be integrated already at a beginning of designing new development programs.