Abstract
Abstract. The complexity of sustainable development and the diversity of regions generate lots of challenges for the implementation of sustainable development at the regional level. In the process of implementation of the global sustainable development objectives, regions are taking different development paths because they are impacted by a unique internal interaction of the drivers. The problem is how the initial conditions of a region define the drivers and their interactions in the process of sustainable development policy implementation.The purpose of the study was to define a tool for the analysis of the interaction of drivers in the process of regional development moving towards sustainable development.The study methods were scientific literature analysis, conceptual, methodological, and visual modeling, and synthesis of the ideas.The paper concludes that an integrated scheme of drivers was used as an analytical method to explain how the difference in a region’s development level defines the path towards sustainable development. Synergy between the dimensions of a well-developed eco-centered region would be achieved by reforms in the economic and institutional dimensions. The scheme of a well-developed techno-centered region reveals a productive amalgamation among the institutional power, welfare level, and market mechanism. The scheme of a less-developedtechno-centered region reveals that reform actions are needed in all dimensions of sustainable development synchronically. Also, some extraordinary events or shocks have to happen to spur the reforms. The holistic view of the drivers suggests that a less-developed eco-centered region has to go the evolution path of social and environmental development, but with rapid reforms in both the institutional system and market relations.Key words: sustainable development, region, institutions, development dynamics
Highlights
The implementation of the sustainable development policy encounters many challenges
The scheme of a well-developed techno-centered region reveals a productive amalgamation among the institutional power, welfare level, and market mechanism
The section of this paper provides an analysis of the sustainable development dynamics in both well-developed and less-developed regions from the point of view of both the eco-centered and techno-centered sustainable development
Summary
The implementation of the sustainable development policy encounters many challenges. The characteristics and complexity of the concept of sustainability (multi-dimensional, global, dynamic) as well as the fact that it reaches out into the future make sustainability a concept which gives a certain direction for policy making rather than serving as a benchmark that could be precisely defined (EU Commission, 2001). Given transformative actions in environmental policy, an eco-centered well-developed region will not feel any difference in terms of its social development moving towards sustainable development in a more rapid way (i.e. by reforming or transforming the current production or consumption patterns), because their welfare level is not affected by a certain ratio between the rights of the citizens and their equality. A faster way to improve welfare in a less-developed eco-centered region is to take both fundamental actions: 1) to reform institutions in order to improve their effectiveness, and 2) to reform government–market relations in order to raise the standards of production and consumption processes to make them more compliant with the sustainable development. The strong institutions, long-term government strategy, political will and the high level of equality are needed to reform the environmental dimension of sustainable development in a region. It is a time-consuming process which should result in a faster social and economic development, efficiency of the government and an improved process of the regional development
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