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Beyond Evaluation Standards?

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2021
It has now become a truism to suggest that evaluation is a highly respected, appreciated and venerated enterprise. This article is based on three central claims.
Petri Virtanen, Ilpo Laitinen
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Local smart specialisation: An approach to increasing preparedness in rural communities with resource-based industries in the Northern Periphery

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2020
A common challenge for Northern communities is how to retain local benefit from resource-based industries. This study assesses the process of developing a local smart specialisation strategy in two municipalities, Storuman and Sodankylä, both located in
Leneisja Jungsberg, Lise Byskov Herslund, Kjell Nilsson, Karina Umander, Anna Kantola, Jukka Teräs, Ryan Weber   +6 more
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Unpacking polycentricity at the city-regional scale: Insights from Dusseldorf and Stockholm

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015
The normative concept of polycentricity has become a promising tool to pursue spatial policy goals such as spatial equity and justice, sustainable and balanced development, and, more recently territorial cohesion, at various scales across Europe.
Peter Schmitt, Kati Volgmann, Angelika Münter, Mitchell Reardon   +3 more
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Spatial planning practices of adapting to climate change

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015
Although spatial planning is considered as crucial for climate change adaption, e.g. in the EU White Paper on Adaptation, there are uncertainties regarding the role of adaptation strategies in spatial planning practices. In this paper the potential role
Bart Jan Davidse, Meike Othengrafen, Sonja Deppisch   +2 more
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The "Blue Banana" Revisited

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2015
This essay is about the “Blue Banana”. Banana is the name given subsequently by others to a Dorsale européenne (European backbone) identified empirically by Roger Brunet. In a background study to the Communication of the European Commission ‘Europe 2000’
Andreas Faludi
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The construction of a trading zone as political strategy: a review of London Infrastructure Plan 2050

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2017
The recent London Infrastructure Plan 2050 appears as an attempt for coming up with innovative answers to infrastructure issues, aiming at providing new spaces where different actors can collaborate, defining adequate visions and governance bodies.
Jean-Baptiste Geissler, Luca Tricarico, Giovanni Vecchio   +2 more
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Territory: An Unknown Quantity in Debates on Territorial Cohesion

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2013
There are complaints about territorial cohesion being a vague concept, but in relevant debates territory, too, figures as an unknown quantity. Thus, is it the fixed property of any state, region or local administrative unit, or is it a malleable social ...
Andreas Faludi
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When soft planning and hard planning meet: Conceptualising the encounter of European, national and sub-national planning

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2016
Despite continuous research efforts, the role of the European Union regard­ing spatial planning remains unclear. This article proposes to employ the concepts of soft spaces and soft planning to better comprehend how Euro­pean spatial planning finds its ...
Eva Purkarthofer
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Bulletin No.395 [PDF]

, 1915
This is Bulletin No.395, February 1915 from the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva ...
Blodgett, F. M.
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From ideas to effective governance: how does the EU change the territorial settings of its member states and what does it mean for European governance?

European Journal of Spatial Development, 2023
In the past, EU cohesion policy has led to some crucial shifts in European integration, the most important of which was its influence on the emergence and ensuing dynamic of EU multi-level governance (MLG).
Vratislav Havlík
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