Contribution of Local Agenda 21 to Practical Implementation of Sustainable Development: The case of the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/14:10125113 RIV/61384399:31150/14:00045875

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.753994" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.753994</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2012.753994" target="_blank" >10.1080/09654313.2012.753994</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contribution of Local Agenda 21 to Practical Implementation of Sustainable Development: The case of the Czech Republic

Original language description

Local Agenda 21 (LA21), a voluntary tool for implementing sustainable development (SD) in local level, is one way of implementing sustainability principles in practice. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development Conference in Rio de Janeiro, which made the first reference of LA21 (intended as a framework for the twenty-first century respecting SD principles), this article deals with evaluating the real contribution of this initiative to the implementation of SD in practice on the example of selected municipalities in the Czech Republic. This contribution is examined by a comparative analysis of the indices of change in selected indicators (three to four indicators for each pillar of SD) for municipalities involved in the LA21 initiative in comparison with reference municipalities, which have not been involved in LA21 so far. The analysis results indicate that different trends in some of the indicators can be observed in municipalities implementing LA21 and in the others. This applies, in particular, to the environmental indicators (such as the degree of waste separation, indicating in part the degree of environmental awareness), but also to some of the economic ones (municipal capital expenditures indicating investment activity).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Planning Studies

ISSN

0965-4313

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

515-536

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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