Sürdürülebilir Yerel Kalkınma Kapsamında Sakin Şehir (Cittaslow) Hareketine Yönelik Artvin-Şavşat Yöneticileri Üzerinde Bir Uygulama
Cittaslows - as Part of Sustainable Regional Development. A Practice Conducted with Artvin-Şavşat Local Governors

Summary/Abstract: In today’s global world, sustainability is an important concept for providing the continuity of world’s sources and the persistence of evolvement. From economic point of view, natural resources are scarce and these scarce resources should be used economical while satisfying the humans’ needs and wants. At this point sustainability is an important factor so that it is approached by many disciplines. It is known that there is a definite and close relationship between development and sustainability. By a sustainable development, the regional geography (in micro base), and national economy, national environment (in macro base) would be affected positively. One of the concepts about sustainable development from regional point of view is “cittaslow” concept. The roots of cittaslow concept is directly related with sustainability, equal environmental and economic factors and a totalitarian economic development. According to this, regional governments do have effect on the sustainability of the cittaslow concept. According this fact, in this research, it is going to be evaluated the perception of the local governors’ of Artvin –Şavşat region (which gets cittaslow title at the ceremony performed in 21-23 June 2013) to cittaslow concept. According to the answers given by the local governors of Artvin-Şavşat region, a consideration will be handled about the perception of local governors to the cittaslow concept.

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