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Petya Ivanova
CREATIVITY AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
Summary:
The article justifies the need for targeted development of destination creativity as a sustainable tourism resource. The economic significance and the way this resource adds value to tourism is outlined.
The role of creativity in tourism development is identified on the basis of the systematization of discussions existing in scientific literature and comparisons between creative and traditional forms of tourism. The specifics of tourism demand and supply of creative tourism experiences are consistently analyzed.
Specific conclusions are made that could contribute to the sustainable development of tourism in Bulgaria based on the analysis carried out
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Metody Kanev
THE METAMORPHOSES OF CAPITAL AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Summary:
The paper is an attempt to clarify the importance of the human, the cultural and the social capital and their metamorphoses in result of their mutual complementarity and conversiveness. By becoming major factors of life reproduction in general, they also act as essential organizing principles of the functional and structural model of social self-organisation and performance and human development
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Dimitar Panayotov
New Paradigms – Interactionist Perspectives of Human Behaviour in Organisations and Management
Summary:
The study analyzes interactionist perspectives, combining different approaches, models, and theories about understanding the multiaspect, multifactor and holistic (comprehensive) nature of human behaviour in organisations and management. It also suggests baseline theses about: substantiation of complex research approaches; intersection of paradigmatic lines of different behaviour sciences, concepts, methodologies, and correlations which establish prerequisites for empirical and applied “translation” for acquiring new knowledge, values, and behaviour to encourage human development, strategic and global thinking, human capital and management of talents
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Rositsa Chobanova
TERRITORIAL ASPECTS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT: CITIES
Summary:
This study discusses the territorial aspect of development through renovation linking it to cities where communication between people, the resultant emergence of problems and prospective solutions are more intensive.
The purpose of this study is to achieve a better understanding of what makes a city innovative and what the problems are in building an innovative city or district. In this context, first, the methodologies for defining, grouping and ranking innovative cities and similar territorial units are characterized. The results of the first comprehensive rankings of innovative cities in the world, Europe and China are presented. The second part of the study is devoted to characterizing debates regarding the European concept for the development of metropolitan areas as innovation centres within the Europe 2020 Strategy. Some ideas for the innovative development of territories in Bulgaria are suggested. The conclusion is that innovative development in a territorial aspect is related to the development of cities and metropolitan areas, which requires regular monitoring, evaluation and well-grounded measures for development, taking into account global good practice.
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Vasil
TERRITORIAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LIVING STANDARDS IN BULGARIAN REGIONS
AND DISTRICTS (2010–2017)
Summary:
The article reviews differences in the living standard at the level of regions and districts. Living standard is defined and assessed in terms of material living conditions by employing multiple indicators which are grouped in three modules (subject areas): economic development; income and consumption; income inequality and poverty. We employ relevant statistical indicators to measure differences and specific methodology to assess the living standard so that we could rank territorial units according to their distance from the best regional score. The findings of our empirical research of the living standard indicate that: (a) there is a slight trend towards a decrease in the differences between regions, while differences between districts remain the same; (b) there are significant changes in the arrangement of regions and districts according to their scores in the different years of the research; (c) divergent trends are identified in the development of territorial differences measured through the summary scores for the three modules; (d) the living standard has deteriorated in a significant number of the territorial units.
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Donka Zhelyazkova
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BULGARIAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Summary:
The paper aims to provide a theoretical overview of the nature of the transport system within the context of sustainable development and to study the framework indicators of the development of freight and passenger transport so as to identify opportunities for improving the infrastructure and applying global practices to the Bulgarian transport sector.
The paper therefore provides a theoretical overview of the nature of the transport system and the sustainable development of decision making to overcome spatial disparities between freight and passengers. The effects and indicators of sustainable development of the transport of passengers and freight have been systematized.
The research focuses on two major areas and has two main objectives: to ensure high mobility of freight and passengers and to reduce the adverse impact of transport on the environment, in line with the ‘Energy consumption as a percentage of the GDP’ indicator and measured through specific indicators. The study also focuses on two other framework indicators ‘Security and safety’ and ‘Environmental indicators’. The analysis is based on official statistics from Eurostat and the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute.
Based on the theoretical overview and the analysis of the empirical data, we have identified local problems as well as opportunities for improving the quality of the transport infrastructure in Bulgaria and adjusting world practices to the situation in Bulgaria in order to contribute to the active implementation of sustainable development ideas to the transport sector in the country.
