Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Medeiros, Eduardo; Rauhut, Daniel

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1548764

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“…Since joining the EU, in 1986, Portugal has received financial support from EU funds to promote its territorial development process, in particular through the EU Cohesion Policy [5,52]. In synthesis, from the intervention's strategic priority, during the first four EU Cohesion programming periods (1989-2013), the bulk of the EU funding was allocated to (i) modernize accessibility and socioeconomic infrastructures; (ii) reinforce economic competitiveness; and (iii) support human capital and employment [53].…”

Section: Portugal 2020: Contributions To Sustainable Development?mentioning

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

Medeiros

2020

Sustainability

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“…Today, a balancing act between the two is still pursued (Nosek, 2017). Farago and Varro (2016) advocate pro lagging regions, whereas Medeiros and Rauhut (2018) advocate pro urban regions. Continuing arguments for pro full coverage approaches (e.g.…”

Section: Implications For Post-2020 Eu Cohesion and Regional Policymentioning

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EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

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Humer

2020

European Planning Studies

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This paper aims at identifying the current main economic thought influencing the EU Cohesion Policy. Postulates and assumptions on how economic growth spreads spatially in key EU policy framework documents are discussed and compared to different economic theories. Strategic EU documents increasingly foster the urban dimension, and focus resources on cities at the expense of cohesive regional development. The findings indicate large overlaps with Perroux' 'growth pole theory'. However, several of the key assumptions of growth pole theory are not met in the new context of post-industrial globalized service economy, which is fundamentally different from its original use. This is a troublesome finding when seen from a strategic planning perspective. Current implications for regional policy and planning boil down to the cardinal question of supporting urban areas and/or peripheries. Taking the strategic EU policy documents and their trajectories in economic thought into consideration, this paper confirms that regional development focuses on cities. Yet, it suggests a new perspective on an urban-centred EU Cohesion Policy, one that normatively requests the 'responsibility' of cities towards their hinterland, instead of fostering a further dissociation of cities from their hinterland. This suggests a reorientation towards supporting the linkages between urban areas and peripheries.

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“…However, this palpable neoliberal trend, justified by an economic context dominated by a deep financial crisis (2008), can hold far-reaching negative implications for the implementation of the TA goals. Indeed, existing literature has shown that, in the past decade (at least), there have been no territorial cohesion trends at the national level, despite the positive impacts associated with EU Cohesion Policy investments in promoting territorial development in many policy arenas and territories (Medeiros & Rauhut, 2020).…”

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“…These dimensions differ in the way that, over time, a territorial cohesion process requires the less developed areas, in a baseline scenario, to show higher levels of development than the more developed ones. This has proved to be a particularly difficult to achieve in terms of policy goal, especially at the national territorial level (Medeiros & Rauhut, 2020). For some, the EU territorial cohesion vision builds on the counteraction or mitigation of spatial imbalances, as well as the increasing policy effectiveness aiming to maximise the exploration of territorial characteristics (Asprogerakas & Zachari, 2020).…”

Section: Territorial Cohesionmentioning

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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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Territorial Cohesion Cities: a policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion?

Cited by 49 publications

References 26 publications

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

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

EU Cohesion Policy and spatial economic growth: trajectories in economic thought

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

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