Territorial Cohesion in the Context of Interregional and Transnational Cooperation

• Authors: Stein, Axel

Abstracts

EN

This paper draws on experience from the Interreg IIIC project ProgreSDEC, covering local and regional authorities from Greece, Italy, and Spain cooperating with each other in interregional and transnational projects. It looks both at the vertical and horizontal dimensions of European integration and explains three aspects of territorial cohesion. Talking about growing awareness, it should be differentiated between awareness relating to European issues - such as the European territorial and institutional environment - to the quality of planning, and to the endogenous ‘territorial capital’. Key terms of European integrative planning are interpreted differently. The paper discusses the reading of ‘polycentricity’, ‘landscape’, and ‘governance’, in particular. Territorial governance can be looked at as an institutional approach to develop integrative planning in the context of territorial cohesion. This notably turns the attention to regions as the focus of integration, in terms of balancing sectoral approaches, bundling spacious networks, and handling the demands from different levels.

Keywords

EN

EU; territorial cohesion; integrative planning

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: European Spatial Research and Policy
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2010-05-24

Contributors

author

Stein, Axel

other

Dept. 1. Regionalisation and Economic Spaces, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Flakenstraße 28-31, 15537 Erkner, Germany

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10854