Subject description
The meaning and implication of planning on strategic level. Macro-trends and driving forces. Strategic planning: economic, social and environmental aspects. Basic principles of socio- economic analysis. Methods and approaches in strategic planning: (1) Methods of developing and conceptualising alternatives: forecasting, visioning scenario modelling (prospective and proactive scenarios).
(2) Methods of evaluating alternatives: SWOT analysis, cost-benefit analysis, Delphi, multicriteria evaluation against a range of criteria and against the objectives.
(3) Methods of undertaking consultation, participation and conflicts resolutions on strategic level: interest groups, negotiations,
Institutional and political framework of strategic planning. Instruments of strategic management: policies, plans and programmes, measures.
The basis of policy analysis. Policy impact assessment on environment/space/sustainable development.
The theoretical knowledge is applied on a practical case in the seminar.
The subject is taught in programs
Objectives and competences
to make students comprehend the strategic dimensions of spatial problems
-to obtain knowledge about concepts and theories of strategic planning and decision making
-to get to know and to learn how to use methods and tools for strategic planning, forecasting, scenario development and policy analysis
-to understand the role of stakeholders in the planning process and to learn how to use methods and tools for participation and consultation.
To be able to determine the hierarchy (of problems, criteria, objesctives, solutions)
To be able to develop visons, objectives and measures for implementation
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures, discussion in groups, case studies,
individual seminar work with consultation
Presentation of seminar task with discussion
Expected study results
Knowledge and understanding:
Of processes and trends on strategic levels.
Of Methods and approaches to strategic planning, policy analysis and policy impact assessment
Of methods ofargumentation, negotiation and decision-making
Application:
Of SWOT analysis and scenario approach, visions and concepts of (spatial) development, multicriteria evaluation, use of selected methods How to develop and use scenario models
How to carry out stakeholder analysis
in strategic planning (developing policies, plans and programs on national and regional level and strategic impact assessments)
How to evaluate options
How to develop a monitoring and evaluation programme
resources, strategies of existing policies, prevailing ethical cultural and geopolitical basics for planning and related decision making forms.
Transferable skills: Strategic thinking and analysis of complex problems, functioning in interdisciplinary groups and complex institutional environments, identification
Reflection: of validity of existing knowledge and value systems in a strategic context, prevailing concepts of sustainable development and management of natural
and formulation of problems, prioritization, argumentation, conceptualising alternatives,
participation in a consultation process
Basic sources and literature
J. Friedman: Planning in the public domain: From Knowledge to action, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987
Kontič B., Marega M. (ur.), 2000, Trajnostno regionalno razvojno načrtovanje, Regionalni center za okolje za srednjo in vzhodno Evropo, Ljubljana, 104 str.
RADEJ, Bojan, GOLOBIČ, Mojca, MACUR, Mirna, DRAGOŠ, Srečo. Vrednotenje politik : obzorja nove miselnosti. Ljubljana: Vega, 2011. 247 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-93138-0-0. [COBISS.SI-ID 257309696]
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