Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion (The Urban Book Series)

Foreword
Introduction
Contents
Editor and Contributors
Part I EU and National Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion
1 EU Policies and Strategies and Territorial Cohesion
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 EU Strategic Development Agendas and Territorial Cohesion
	1.3 EU Cohesion Policy and Territorial Cohesion
	1.4 EU Territorial Agendas and Territorial Cohesion
	1.5 Conclusion
	References
2 National Policies and Territorial Cohesion
	2.1 Introduction
		2.1.1 Theoretical Framework and Policy Setting Rationale
		2.1.2 The Exercise of Compatibility Between Public Policy Instruments Arising from the Recovery and Resilience Facility and from Cohesion Policy 2021–2027
		2.1.3 The Recovery and Resilience Facility’s Rationale and Intervention Model
	2.2 Recovery and Resilience Plans and National Policies
		2.2.1 Main Policy Areas Covered by the RRPs
	2.3 Strategic and Functional Articulation Between RRPs and CP 2021–2027
	2.4 RRPs and the Territorialization of Approaches
	2.5 Conclusions
	References
Part II Socioeconomic Development Policies for Territorial Cohesion
3 Equal Opportunities, Fair Work and Social Protection: Impacts of COVID-19 on Young People in Portuguese Rural Territories
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 EU and Portuguese Rural Areas: A Snapshot
	3.3 Young People in Rural Areas
		3.3.1 Youth and Shrinking Demography
		3.3.2 Declining Economies
		3.3.3 Institutional Support
	3.4 COVID-19 Impacts on Portuguese Young People Living in Rural Areas
		3.4.1 Equal Opportunities: Education and Transition to the Labour Market
		3.4.2 Fair Working Conditions: Youth (un)employment
		3.4.3 Social Protection: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Health Needs
	3.5 Discussion and Conclusion
		3.5.1 Implications for Research and Policy
	References
4 Non-profit Organizations and Territorial Cohesion: The Case of Cross-Border Collaboration
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Literature Review
	4.3 Data and Methods
	4.4 Results and Discussion
	4.5 Conclusions
	Annex 1: List of Variables and Latent Variables
	References
Part III Environmental Sustainability Policies for Territorial Cohesion
5 EU Cohesion in an Age of Environmental Breakdown: Rethinking the Territorial Agenda
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Withering on the Vine
	5.3 Don’t Look Up!
	5.4 Existential Dilemmas
	5.5 Decelerating Cohesion
	5.6 Conclusion
	References
6 Sustainable Urbanisation for Territorial Cohesion. A Multi-scalar Perspective
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 European Urbanisation and Sustainability
	6.3 Sustainable Urbanisation and Territorial Cohesion
	6.4 Towards a More Sustainable Urbanisation? A Multi-scalar Perspective
		6.4.1 Data Collection Methodology
		6.4.2 The EU Approach to Sustainable Urbanisation
		6.4.3 National Perspectives
		6.4.4 Regional and Local Interventions
	6.5 Concluding Remarks
	References
Part IV Urban Policies for Territorial Cohesion
7 Urban and Regional Planning for Territorial Cohesion
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Territorial Cohesion and Spatial Planning
	7.3 Cohesion, Growth and Sustainability in Planning
	7.4 Regional Planning Practices—Examples from Central European Cross-Border Cooperation Programmes (Interreg)
		7.4.1 Relational Added Value in Heterogenous Regional Settings
		7.4.2 Regional Inequalities and the Right to Difference
	7.5 Learning Goals and Place-Based Approaches for  Just- and Sustainable Development
	7.6 Conclusion
	References
8 Spatial Planning for Territorial Cohesion
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Towards a Shared Understanding of Territorial Cohesion
	8.3 Important: Territorial Cohesion as First Pillar Policy for the of EU Project
		8.3.1 Bridges Between the Cohesion Policy (Community) and Spatial Development (Intergovernmental)
	8.4 Parallelisms and Proximities Between Territorial Cohesion and Spatial Planning: More at States Level than of the European Union
	8.5 How Spatial Plans Help to Territorial Cohesion; and How EU Cohesion Policy Helps National Spatial Planning Systems
	8.6 Final Remarks and Conclusions
	References
Part V Territorial Cooperation and Governance Policies for Territorial Cohesion
9 Territorial Cooperation for European Cohesion (In What Measure Can ETC Contribute to Achieving the EU Goal of Territorial Cohesion?)
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 A European Single Market or Just a Stylish Common Market?
	9.3 A “Defective” Cohesion or just Too Much National Sovereignty?
	9.4 Give Cohesion a Chance: European Territorial Cooperation
	9.5 Conclusion
	References
10 Cross-Territorial Governance via EGTCs for Territorial Cohesion
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Conceptual Framework
		10.2.1 Constructivist Discourse Theory
		10.2.2 New Regionalism
		10.2.3 Network Governance Theory
		10.2.4 Terminology
	10.3 The EGTC—and a New Discourse on Space
	10.4 The EGTC as a Driver of Territorial Cohesion
	10.5 Discussion—Back to a Bordered World?
	References
Conclusion
Index