Abstract
The municipalities development planning consists of two main streams—the spacial planning and the strategic planning—intents, objectives, and tactics of which are coordinated with various successes and outputs. The strategic planning has been implemented into the East European municipalities' management since the end of the 1990s. It had to respond to many oncoming circumstances. Economic, security, environmental, and other crises, both national and global, occurred. But the COVID-19 disease pandemic has brought wholly new challenges in the life management in the societies all over the world. The chapter intends to investigate how the value priorities within the municipalities strategic objectives changed during the pandemic, taking the Czech Republic (one of the European COVID-19 most affected countries) as an example.
TopThe Current State Of Post-Pandemic Strategic Planning Research
The matter of the strategic planning at the public sector, or at the municipality level, has been theoretically probed over a long period by a number of authors, e.g. Bryson and Roering (1987), more recently e.g. Johnsen (2015), Bryson, Edwards and van Slyke (2018), or Tambovtsev and Rozhdestvenskaya (2020). Many authors also look into the general theory of the strategic planning implementation in the environment of the individual regions and states municipalities. Among them e.g. George (2017) addressing the Flamish environment, Johnsen (2016) studying the situation in Norway, or Isoraiteova (2009) looking into the situation in Latvia, and Abis and Garau (2016) following the situation in Sardinia. In the context of the Czech environment this subject is studied e.g. by Ježek, Šilhánková and Slach (2015), Krbová (2016), or Půček and Koppitz (2012).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Strategic Planning: The set of tools, techniques, and practices that leads to the efficient use of source in the organization/city. In the European Union the participation of local stakeholders is very important for the process.
Priorities in the Municipalities Strategic Objectives: The strategic plans express the aims and goals of the cities and are the outcome of the strategic planning process.
City Development at Municipal Level: The set of tools and practices used for the development of cities. It consists of the strategic, spatial, and economic tools.
Quality of Life in the Management of Cities: Quality of life is based on the principles of sustainable development. There are lot of definitions of the quality of life. In this chapter the quality of life proceeds from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN General Assembly, 2015).
Efficient Management of Cities: The efficient management of cities is understood as a knowledge- and data- based maintenance and development of cities regarding the opinions and needs of inhabitants.
COVID-19 Pandemic: Pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 disease that appeared in China in 2019 and expanded to the whole World. It affected all aspects of life on the Earth and caused millions of deaths.