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Quantitative supervision of the implementation of planning documents is one of the fundamental elements of good governance and is vital for ensuring sustainable development perspective. The sustainability of a territory may be specifically defined in developmental planning documents as a long-term goal or indirectly emanate from the territorial vision and set of defined measurable objectives. The most effective way to supervise progress towards planned objectives is with the help of the relevant indicator system (...

In the last twenty years Timisoara proved to be one of the main development centers of Romania, and became the most important economic region in the western part of the country. As part of this evolution the neighbouring settlements of the city began to change, as they became part of a greater new urban system. At first, all initiatives came from the part of investors, mainly based in Timisoara, who were looking for cheap land surfaces for their future projects. Though new investments represented great possibiliti...

The priorities of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic is determined primarily by the Strategy of development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and national security for the period up to 2020, approved by the President of the Russian Federation. In the framework of the activities of the Russian State Commission on Arctic development a working group "Education and Science" under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. This group had analyzed ...

In the paper the priority directions of development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and ensuring national security, and note that one of the most principal factor is the development of science and technology and international cooperation in the Arctic. For the development of Arctic science and technology, the Russian Federation conducts work on formation of competitive scientific and technological sector in the development and deployment of advanced technologies and materials adapted to the climatic c...

The interest in sustainable economic development, with all the financial benefits arising from it, is a priority to the objectives of protection in Natura 2000 sites. To highlight the antithesis between the protection objectives and the desire for economic development of this space, we used the Markov model. The data used for the analysis were the boundaries of the Natura 2000 sites and the information provided by Corine Land Cover data set from 2006 (the year prior to the establishment of these sites) and 2012. B...