Okoljski kapital in sonaravna strategija razvoja Slovenije

slovenian

2005

volume 39, issue 4

environmental protection    sustainable development    Slovenia 

Urad RS za makroekonomske analize in razvoj
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Due to the expectional geographic diversity, the landscape mosaic-like structure and geological youth of the territory connected with it, Slovenia has at its disposal limited, modest supplies of non-renewable sources (especially fossil fuel) and diverse renewable sources as well as a great biotic diversity. The aerial availability of the key natural resources shows that various natural resources are present in the Slovene regions. We assessed them as a strategic competitive priority of Slovenia and an important factor in the accordant regional development and the improvement of the quality of life. From a two-layered point of view, thus with regard to the planed rise of the competitive position and the quality of life (narrower - the quality of enivornment, in the period till 2013) the following components of the enivornment capital stand out of their quantity and/or quality in Slovenia: 1. various water sources - water suplly, energy and tourist recreational function; 2. biomass, especially timberindustrial, energy and settlement function; 3. geothermal energy - energy and tourist-health function; 4. land for acquiring high quality healthy food - agricultural; ecosystem and settlement function; 5. genuine landscapes - recreation and outdoor tourism function; 6. biotic diversity - ecosystem, cultural and recreational-tourist function; 7. lignite - energy, partly geopolitical (reduction of import dependence) function. The quantitative and qualitative balance of the renewable sources, their technologic, economic and environment evaluation underlines their (limited) potential for a high quality, raw material and energy efficient economic development and simultaneously the expectional role of their protection and deliberate ecosystem use in preserving and improving the quality of living or (broader) life. Due to the regionally tessellated territory (natural-geographic, social-geographic, landscape-ecological and developmental) of Slovenia and its regions the judgements of economic, socail and environmental influence of all the planed use of separate sources in the environmental influences of all the planed use of separate sources in the environment for a sustainable and optimal consumption of the environmental capital.

01.06.2016