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  • Marina Nikolova, Krasimira Slaveva, Pavlin Pavlov, Elitsa Lazarova
    ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL REGION IN BULGARIA
    JEL: R11, R13, J11, Q57.
    Keywords: analysis, indicators, economic, social, demographic, environmental, regions
    Abstract: The establishment of trends and intensity of ongoing processes is important for revealing the causes and differences in the development of regions, the disproportions that have arisen and the need to apply adequate measures for their reduction and limitation. In today's economy, undergoing increasing transformations towards sustainability in each of the developing sectors in Bulgaria and especially in the sensitive regions, sustainability in the context of sustainable development is becoming even more important. Two of the poorest regions in EU are located in Bulgaria – the Northwest and the North Central Region (NWR and NCR), and this is the main reason to analyse the indicators characterizing their economic, social, demographic and environmental condition in this article. The main objective of the study is to analyse important indicators for two of the statistical regions in Bulgaria (NWR and NCR) related to the current vision for their economic, socio-demographic and environmental condition. The study found that, unfortunately, the negative trend of the NWR and the NCR being the least populated regions in the Republic of Bulgaria is still growing, where the population in the NWR manages to stay within the upper limit, while the NCR is emerging as the region with the fastest depopulation. Enterprises with high risk potential have a larger relative share in the NCR, and those in the NWR have lower values. The higher relative share of enterprises with low risk potential in the NWR indicates the possibility of increasing sustainable territorial development and connectivity between different territories, between urban and rural areas. A sustainable trend is observed towards reducing the carbon dioxide values in the sectors of construction, energy, industry and waste. The same trend is noted for methane in the sectors of agriculture, construction, transport and waste, and for the nitrous oxide component in the agriculture, construction and energy sectors. Alarming is the trend in both studied regions for increasing values of CO2 in the agriculture and transport sectors, and of methane in the energy and industry sectors.
  • Nikola Yankov
    THE AREAL AS A TOOL FOR LOCAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND PROSUMING (A vision)
    JEL: R11, R58.
    Keywords: areal, areal formation, prosuming, econeonomics
    Abstract: Strategic turns in regional development are a serious challenge. They lead to actions related to the rationalisation of the management of administrative units and territorial systems, to their linking in order to seek synergistic effects. The article deals with a problem related to the creation of associations of municipalities, here conventionally called areals. This idea develops in the direction of their aggregation, conforming to, and responding to the megatrend of local prosuming. Emphasis is placed on the configuration and role of the areal. Strategic issues that accompany the formation of areals are formulated including models that can become the basis for visioning, strategizing and planning. On this basis, an integral model (vision) for the formation of a specific areal in the Southernmost Danube Arc, called Svibenik (Svishtov - Belene - Nikopol) is launched. The intention is also to combine in one the theory with the design of a real areal structure.
  • Nikola Yankov
    A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO REGIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
    JEL: R11
    Keywords: business networks in regions/settlements, vision, ViStratPlan, holistic approach, omni-technological revolution, national business sphere
    Abstract: The article is outlining the problems and the need for alternative (also called diagonal) approach in the development process of the regions and in particular în their business spheres. In this regard the first part clarifies the object of study - the region and its business sphere. The next part is looking for an answer to the questions: how the regions can be transformed into business networks and how to become pillars of their overall (holistic) development; how in the process of their modernization to be used the achievements of megatehnologic revolution of the XXI century? Afterwards certain models for organizing initiatives for regional /local business changes are presented.

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