Sustainable development of countryside 2007–2013 in Carinthia

The thesis deals with the rural development program in the period 2007–2013 in case of Carinthia, Slovenia and European Union. Rural development policy in European Union and Slovenia is introduced in the first part. The rural development policy in European Union is influenced by the history of rural development. In the thesis, the most important reforms and conferences which had impact on the development of common agricultural policy in Europe are introduced. The rural development programme 2007–2013 in accordance with three themes from new regulation which concerns development of countryside guides us into three different fields: larger competitiveness of agriculture and forestry, environment and countryside, better life on countryside and diversity of the country economy. In the first part, the rural development program 2007–2013 for Republic of Slovenia is analysed. In the second part of the thesis, the possibility of transfer of the rural development programme on the regional level is presented, the case of Carinthia. The approaches how to include orientation and measures from rural development program in to the regional development program are presented in continuation. Six analyses from the fields of economy, tourism and cultural heritages, developments of human resources, infrastructures, environment protection and spatial development, agriculture, forestry and countryside and development support in the region are introduced as well. Furthermore, the advantages, disadvantages, barriers and opportunities in Carinthia are presented. The vision of the development of countryside in Carinthia region was appointed based on these analyses