Model of sustainable regional development with implementation of brownfield areas

Abstract

The article highlights the potential of brownfield areas in the sense of the rules and principles of sustainable development of the regions which shows significant disparities determined by the developmental tendencies of the socio-economic and environmental spheres, whose interactions were its basic platform in the Slovak Republic in the last years. Brownfield areas, with a degree of degradation and environmental quality depending on their type and original use, have a negative impact on all mentioned spheres of regional development, since such sites are unused and represent so-called brown investments, i.e. areas from which the region has no benefit. From the explicitly defined positive and negative determinants of the actual occurrence of brownfield areas in terms of sustainable development of the regions, the article quantifies their prioritization in the process of implementation into the regional development model, accepting the principles of Saaty matrix which is objective from a process perspective of sustainable regional development. Based on the explicit quantification of the above-mentioned determinants, the categorization of brownfield areas in the process of sustainable regional development, including the model of regional development with implemented brownfield sites, whose actual occurrence supports the occurrence of diversified activities, reduces the price of the surrounding land and ultimately threatens the health of the affected population and reduces the price of surrounding lands.

Possibilities of Using Brownfields After Mining and Processing of Mineral Resources in Slovakia

“…All the determinants were added a numerical value of the weight by accepting the generally valid condition of ∑αi=1. The values of the weights were quantified in terms of the Saaty matrix principles with dimensions of m x n, where m = 1 ... i and n = 1 ... j, were given by the number of rows and columns, keeping the condition m = n. This symmetrical matrix also corresponds to the fact that the method is based on the interactive comparison of all predefined determinants of the same rank with the evaluation in Table 1 [1,7]. The determinant i is slightly preferred over the determinant j 5…”

“…If the determinant in the row is preferred over the determinant in the column, the reciprocal value was attributed. After this evaluation of individual determinant, partial line items were created according to [1,7]:…”

“…Brownfields after mining and processing of mineral resources were created as a result of radical changes in socio-economic structure, characterized by the shift of labor from primary (agriculture, forestry) to secondary (industry and construction) and currently to tertiary (trade, transport, services, public administration) of the sphere of civil life [1,2]. The environmental quality is not only influenced by the extraction of mineral resources, but also by the technological processes of processing and refining the extracted mineral resources.…”

Assessment of Socio-Economic Impacts of Zeolite Mining to Regional Development – Case Study

“…Sustainable development of Slovak Republic regions with an effective way of exploiting zeolite deposits can be understood as a strategic, complex and synergic process affecting the economic -social and environmental aspects, which minimizes interventions which threatening, damaging, resp. devastating living conditions, adequately exploits raw material resources and protects the Slovak cultural and natural heritage [6,7].…”

Fundamental Approaches for the Formation of Integrated Corporate Reporting

“…It is recognized that the increase in the value of the company is largely determined by the ability to manage not only financial and material flows, but also a whole complex of capital and resources: financial, industrial, human, intellectual, natural, social (Korableva et al, 2018;Goryushkina et al, 2019). At the same time, non-financial indicators subject to disclosure in the traditional reporting are reflected in a truncated manner and are perceived by users of such reporting as insufficiently reliable and incomparable (Prause and Olaniyi, 2019;Lincényi, 2017;Zeibote et al, 2019;Pavolová et al, 2019;Dyussembekova et al, 2019;Dunets et al, 2019). Accordingly, they cannot be regarded as a reliable basis for most strategic financial decisions.…”