New project on territorial instruments – ESPON SENPO

I currently work on a new ESPON project 'Territorial instruments of national policies as a tool for designing territorially sensitive policies' (SENPO), which investigates how national territorial instruments, such as the Dutch NOVEX or the Italian National Strategy for Inner Areas, perform and whether and how they are synergised with EU territorial instruments (e.g. Integrated … Continue reading New project on territorial instruments – ESPON SENPO

New paper on cross-fertilisation between spatial planning and EU Cohesion Policy

EU Cohesion Policy (especially its territorial instruments) and spatial planning have a lot in common, even though they tend to exist in 'parallel worlds'. In our new paper, co-written with Karel Maier and Jan Kabrhel, we attempt to examine where these two 'worlds' meet and how to make these encounters more fruitful. We use the … Continue reading New paper on cross-fertilisation between spatial planning and EU Cohesion Policy