Theory and practice of local development strategic planning
Theory and practice of local development strategic planning

Summary/Abstract: The initial part of the presentation includes the definitions of the core and scope of strategic planning at local level, functions of strategic planning in small towns, principles of designing local development strategies, as well as a proposal for applying a four-stage procedure of strategic planning within the formula of collaborative planning. The other part discusses the course of designing the local development strategies in ten small and three medium-sized Polish towns. This comprises of a presentation of motives that prompted the implementation of strategic planning procedures, an evaluation of compliance with the consensus principle and the sustainable development standards, an evaluation of the applied strategic analysis, and finally an evaluation of the procedure for identifying the hierarchical structure of strategic objectives and goals.

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