Spatial Planning, Territorial Development, and Territorial Impact Assessment

Medeiros, Eduardo

doi:10.1177/0885412219831375

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“…As in most cases, however, the bulk of the literature does not provide a clear distinction between the concepts of sustainable development and territorial development [35,36]. Indeed, the latter concept is also dependent on economic, social, environmental, and positive governance progress trends, as well as the implementation of sound spatial planning processes [37].…”

Section: Sustainable Territorial Development: Analytic Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Portugal 2020: An Effective Policy Platform to Promote Sustainable Territorial Development?

Medeiros

2020

Sustainability

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This paper explores the implementation of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy in Portugal during the 2014–2020 programming period (Portugal 2020) and its contribution to promoting sustainable territorial development. It starts with an anatomization of the dominant analytic dimensions of the concept of sustainable territorial development. It then examines the approved projects under Portugal 2020 and relates them to the selected five dimensions of territorial sustainable development, which include a circular economy, social environmental awareness, environmental conservation, a global governance sustainability focus, and a global spatial planning sustainability focus. The conclusions are that the Portugal 2020 goals of supporting sustainable territorial development have been, until late 2019, achieved beyond initial expectations in terms of relative allocated funding, and that the renewable energy and circular economy components have not been sufficiently explored, vis-à-vis the sustainable development needs of the country.

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Section: Sustainable Territorial Development: Analytic Dimensionsmentioning

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Portugal 2020: An Effective Policy Platform to Promote Sustainable Territorial Development?

Medeiros

2020

Sustainability

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“…Complementing this analysis is the quantitative data related to existing CB barriers in Europe, which was used to map the areas where the post-2020 EU CBC process has the potential to reduce such barriers. The latter data was analysed via a Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) methodology called TARGET-TIA (see Medeiros 2017Medeiros , 2019a, used in a simplified manner, with the main goal of identifying the cross-border areas where the analysed cross-border barriers are higher. It is also important to stress out that the data used to elaborate the cartography of the potential covidfencing territorial impacts in the analysed dimensions (accessibility, institutional cooperation, economic cooperation, social cooperation and cultural cooperation), is only loosely related to the reporting of the many analysed incidents of (reactions to) covidfencing.…”

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Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: the case of Europe

Medeiros

Ramírez

Ocskay

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European Planning Studies

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The beginning of 2020 saw the global spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a systematic closure of national borders across the world, which we refer to as the 'covidfencing' panorama. As expected, in Europe, where close to two million commuters cross national borders on a daily basis to work, this new reality has provoked significant setbacks to their lives. Based on evidence already available from several sources, this article presents some of the main impacts of the covidfencing process in the European cross-border (CB) areas. It does so by relating this process to the components of a proposed deterritorialism conceptual framework. In essence, it was possible to conclude that social related components like the sharing of health facilities and the need to work across borders show the existence of a high degree of deterritorialism in several parts of Europe. Nevertheless, more integration and deterritorialism is required everywhere, and simultaneously at the social, economic, physical and institutional levels. Crucially, covidfencing has highlighted the need for improving cross-border cooperation (CBC) with a view to mitigating persistent CB barriers and European integration processes.

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“…Mackinnon & Cumbers, 2011). And even authors who recognize that 'growth is achieved through positive interactions between factors such as infrastructure provision, educational attainments, innovation and the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture' (Beer & Clower, 2019: 4), place particular emphasis on the economic dimension of development by systematically invoking the growth rationale vis-à-vis a more encompassing development and cohesion rationale (Medeiros, 2019b).…”

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“…These can include economic, social, environmental, governance and spatial planning conditions. Moreover, territorial development encompasses several spatial scales, from urban to global development (Medeiros, 2019b). More widely, the territorial development context of several places, as is the case of Europe, 'is viewed as particularly diverse, requiring geographically differentiated policy responses and coordination across sectoral policies and scales of governance to ensure that the potential of individual territories is maximized' (Walsh & Allin, 2012, p.380).…”

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Fake or real EU Territorialicy? Debating the territorial universe of EU policies

Medeiros¹

2020

Eur. XXI

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This paper provides new insights into the main pillars of the territorial universe of EU policies, by undertaking a systematic overview of European Union (EU) key territorial development reports, agendas and programmes. These include the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP), the three Territorial Agendas, and the European Territorial Observatory Network (ESPON) reports. The evidence shows widespread territorialicy, understood as a process of incorporating a territorial driven policy design, implementation and evaluation paradigm, still largely dominated by territorial development and territorial cohesion policy rationales. However, the socioeconomic policy prism continues to dominate the design and analysis of EU policies by EU entities.

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Spatial Planning, Territorial Development, and Territorial Impact Assessment

Cited by 44 publications

References 50 publications

Portugal 2020: An Effective Policy Platform to Promote Sustainable Territorial Development?

Portugal 2020: An Effective Policy Platform to Promote Sustainable Territorial Development?

Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: the case of Europe

Fake or real EU Territorialicy? Debating the territorial universe of EU policies

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