Can EU Cohesion Policy fight peripheralization?

Nagy, Júlia A.; Benedek, József

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“…ESPON, together with the INTERREG IIIB programs are regarded as important pillars of the European spatial planning discourse. Some authors (Böhme and Schön, 2006;Waterhout, 2008;Nagy and Benedek, 2021) consider that the European spatial planning discourse is carried by influential documents like the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), the Territorial Agenda of the EU (TA) and the Territorial State and Perspectives of the EU (TSP). The adoption of this strategic documents has highly influenced the national spatial planning documents at national scale in Romania, but the diffusion of the European mainstream discourse remained concentrated at governmental level and in some smaller academic communities located at universities.…”

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The Spatial Planning System and Practice in Post-Socialist Romania: Between the Heritage of “Systematization” and Europenization

Benedek

2023

Észak-magyarországi Stratégiai Füzetek

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This paper offers an overview of the major processes and characteristics of the spatial planning system and practice in Romania. It is largely based on document analysis, proposing an evaluation of the major legislative documents regulating the field of spatial planning (the basic Law nr. 350 from 2001 for Spatial Planning and Urbanism, and additionally, the seven laws composing the National Spatial Planning Act). We focus on the description of the planning practices indetified in the official spatial planning documents from various spatial scales, from regional to local, by considering the interactions established between institutional, economic, political and cultural factors from the socialist period and during the post-socialist transition period. The article argues for the major effects related to a low-speed but obvious Europeanization process of the spatial planning institutions and practices expressed through the uncritical and unreflected introduction of neo-liberal ideas in the spatial planning legislation and practices. The resulting spatial planning system has taken a hybrid shape, represented by a mix of three major European planning styles: comprehensive integrated, land-use oriented and urbanistic planning styles.

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The Spatial Planning System and Practice in Post-Socialist Romania: Between the Heritage of “Systematization” and Europenization

Benedek

2023

Észak-magyarországi Stratégiai Füzetek

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“…In Romania for example, after the 1990's the transformations in landuse planning driven by change of land property, decollectivisation of agriculture, privatization, deindustrialization processes (Grigorescu et al, 2021) marked the turn from socialist mechanisms to the post-socialist neo-liberal initiatives which changed the role of the actors involved in the planning and decisionmaking processes (Nae et al, 2020). This was also induced by the country's accession to the European Union in 2007 and consequently the adoption of the EU's Urban Agenda that brought new challenges in terms of governance especially with relation to the metropolitan-wide integrative planning, development as well as allocation and use of financial resources (Nagy and Benedek, 2021). In relation to this, it is important to mention that the country's EU accession also triggered the initiation of the growth pole program, a top-down initiative that aimed to decrease regional disparities which in spatial terms was translated in the creation of metropolitan areas.…”

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Participative Planning in the Context of Metropolitan Governance. A Case of Cluj Metropolitan Area

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2021

Studia UBB Geographia

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"Participative Planning in the Context of Metropolitan Governance. A Case of Cluj Metropolitan Area. Public participation became an essential element of the modern governance practice and a norm in the contemporary spatial planning. It is also endorsed as an important component in creating sustainable development and an efficient tool in strengthening legitimacy. Nevertheless, there is also a lack of confidence in management decisions and in political structures as mechanisms to conduct effective strategic governance and to address the needs of various stakeholders in the strategy and policy formulation. The aim of study is to examine how public participation is perceived in the view of different stakeholders in a complex governance setting of a metropolitan area. The findings show that the process of public participation is perceived differently depending on the group of stakeholders and the actual public involvement differs between the rural areas and the urban core. Although public engagement is widely endorsed, there are different views on what this process should comprise. Nevertheless, the question of how far the common citizens actually influenced the spatial development of the metropolitan area, is open for debate. Keywords: public participation, metropolitan governance, public engagement, strategic planning "

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“…The 17 adopted objectives are the followings (united Nations, 2015, united Nations, 2022: in order for us to apply the principles and goals of sustainable development in development policies, we must determine fair and just economic and territorial development directions, including conflicting economic, social and environmental conservation interests and priorities. it can be definitely stated that the economic and economic development dimensions of sustainable development (competitiveness, innovation, smart specialization) have remained key priorities in regional development practices in europe, while the social and environmental dimensions have been given secondary importance, especially in the eastern european countries, which are poorer in resources but treat economic and regional consolidation a priority (Benedek & Lembcke, 2017;Nagy & Benedek, 2021). The european Green deal (eGd) adopted by the european Commission (eC) as a new growth strategy in 2019, with the political commitment of the eB to attain the SdGs, was definitely an important milestone (Lafortune et al, 2021).…”

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Spatial Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals

Benedek¹

2023

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This study examines sustainable development from the perspective of financial risks, focusing on measurement issues, like the spatial localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More exactly, the goal of the study is to present the European reception and implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations, and to determine the spatial localization of the SDGs at local level. Furthermore, it addresses the measurement of the sustainable development goals, because a measurement-based risk assessment plays a key role in the successful implementation of sustainable development based economic policy. As a case study for the measurement and localization of the SDGs, we will use the case of Romania, deploying a set of 90 indicators with a data source and method-mix, where Earth Observations and Geographical Information Systems play an important role. The results show that the methodology used in our studies can be applied with good results in the spatial localisation and the measurement of the sustainability indices. The latter register the highest scores, and therefore the lowest associated banking risks – with the exception of a few peri-urban communities – in large and medium sized cities.

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Can EU Cohesion Policy fight peripheralization?

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The Spatial Planning System and Practice in Post-Socialist Romania: Between the Heritage of “Systematization” and Europenization

The Spatial Planning System and Practice in Post-Socialist Romania: Between the Heritage of “Systematization” and Europenization

Participative Planning in the Context of Metropolitan Governance. A Case of Cluj Metropolitan Area

Spatial Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals

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