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...

The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ÈR). The project was carried out by the research team consisting of both The Centre of Regional and Administrative Studies and The Regional Studies Department´s...

The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ÈR). The project was carried out by the research team consisting of both The Centre of Regional and Administrative Studies and The Regional Studies Department's members...

In this paper the author characterizes the evolution and the present situation of Czech regional policy. He also deals with management and legislation of the Czech regional policy. The Czech public administration faces up to a lot of problems including management and hierarchic structure of the...

The paper is aimed at theoretical and methodological approaches to the evaluation of regional competitiveness, i.e. concept and approaches to competitiveness and methodology of its comparison. In addition of defi nitions, approaches and methods using by some selected signifi cant authors, the...