A stakeholder-based EU territorial cooperation: the example of European macro-regions

Sielker, Franziska

doi:10.1080/09654313.2016.1221383

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“…Instead of developing binding plans or regulations, European interventions thus focus on strategy development, coordination, cooperation, negotiation and learning. This is visible for example in the macro-regional strategies, for which the 'three nos' were defined: no new funding, no new regulations, no new institutions (Faludi, 2013;Sielker, 2016a).…”

Section: From Informal Strategies Towards Strategic Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the partnership approach in the EU Urban Agenda from the perspective of soft planning

Purkarthofer

2018

European Planning Studies

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At the European level, several strategic documents concerned with spatial and urban development have been published during the last decades. While these documents are essential to communicate European ideas and objectives, they are often regarded least influential in practice due to their abstract nature, legally nonbinding status and lack of allocated resources. Though these limitations apply to the EU Urban Agenda, this recently published policy paper introduces partnerships as a new implementation tool. The partnerships can be regarded as innovative in two respects: On the one hand, they involve new actors, most importantly cities, in European policy debates. On the other hand, they ensure the anchorage of the Urban Agenda with a broad range of actors at various spatial scales without challenging its legally non-binding status. The Urban Agenda can thus be understood as another example of the move towards soft European spatial planning and urban development. This article investigates the notion of partnership as a soft planning and governance tool within the Urban Agenda. Moreover, based on expert interviews, it presents early opinions and expectations of actors involved in the development of the Urban Agenda and the partnerships on affordable housing.

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Section: From Informal Strategies Towards Strategic Informalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the partnership approach in the EU Urban Agenda from the perspective of soft planning

Purkarthofer

2018

European Planning Studies

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“…Only such cooperation can ensure success. The importance of involving stakeholders in decision-making processes has been stressed by various authors [47][48][49][50][51].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

Izakovičová¹,

Miklós

Miklósová

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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The integrated approach to landscape management is generally accepted, but its application is not on the desired practical level. Sectoral approaches to decision-making and planning processes still dominate. The presented paper concerns selected aspects of integrated landscape management in Slovakia. This paper reflects the present state of the long-term effort and experiences of the authors in the integration of ecological knowledge in landscape management tools. The basic methodological procedure needed to achieve this goal consists of analysis, mutual comparison, and confrontation of the existing principles and tools used in applied landscape ecology, as well as in legislation and planning practice. The landscape ecological base for the implementation of scientific achievements in landscape management consists of two methods: landscape ecological planning and ecological network planning. These two methods were implemented into the legislation and practice of nature conservation, physical/territorial planning, watershed management, land arrangement projecting, forestry planning, and flood prevention management. Such systematic landscape ecological regulations in planning practice can be considered the basis for sustainable development.

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“…At the same time, the macro-regional strategies differ in their specific structures. Each macro-regional strategy is based on the leadership of specific stakeholders, which design the thematic, geographical and governance structure according to their distinct interests (Sielker 2016;Plangger 2017). In the case of the fourth macro-regional strategy in the Alpine space, the main stakeholders are regional authorities.…”

Section: Cross-border Network Mobilization In the Alpine Spacementioning

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“…In the case of the fourth macro-regional strategy in the Alpine space, the main stakeholders are regional authorities. 4 This distinguishes the strategy from other macro-regional strategies, where national governments and the European Commission play the leading role (Schuh et al 2015;Sielker 2016). Consequently, the Alpine space represents an interesting testing case that allows examining how regional actors, cross-border connections and different kinds of boundaries and hierarchies interact.…”

Section: Cross-border Network Mobilization In the Alpine Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The various established connections increase the regional influence on decisions, competences and resources at the EU, the transnational and the national level. Regions can gather actors behind their priorities in the action groups, set the agenda of cooperation and call for changes in EU and national policies (Sielker 2016). They build an interface between their subnational constituencies and the EU, can gain direct information on EU procedures and positions and streamline EU funds (Stead et al 2015).…”

Section: The Use Of Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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De-and re-bordering the Alpine Space: how Cross-border Cooperation Intertwines Spatial and Institutional Patterns of Exclusion and Inclusion, Subordination and Horizontality

Plangger

2018

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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During the last years, scholars have broken up dichotomies that have shaped our understanding of cross-border cooperation. In geography, the confrontation between a territorial and a relational reading of space has given way to approaches that stress their dialogue. In political science, a struggle between a focus on government and governance has shifted towards a recognition of their coexistence. In this sense, cross-border networks no longer appear as antipodes to territorial borders, scalar relationships, sectoral differentiation and political hierarchies. Rather, they constitute and condition each other. While both geography and political science stress how connections mingle with patterns of exclusion and subordination, scholars rarely bring spatial and institutional accounts together. This paper aims at bridging the gap between spatial and institutional approaches of cross-border cooperation. With regard to theory, it embeds similarities in their ontological focus on structures and strategies in a strategicrelational approach. Empirically, the paper examines the EU macro-regional strategy for the Alpine space. The conclusions imply that the macro-regional strategy embodies a dynamic balance of spatial and institutional boundlessness and boundaries.

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A stakeholder-based EU territorial cooperation: the example of European macro-regions

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Investigating the partnership approach in the EU Urban Agenda from the perspective of soft planning

Investigating the partnership approach in the EU Urban Agenda from the perspective of soft planning

The Integrated Approach to Landscape Management —Experience from Slovakia

De-and re-bordering the Alpine Space: how Cross-border Cooperation Intertwines Spatial and Institutional Patterns of Exclusion and Inclusion, Subordination and Horizontality

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