Recensement des politiques territoriales dans l’Espace Alpin / Surveying spatial policies in the Alpine Space

While the Interreg IIIB “Alpine Space” programme for transnational territorial cooperation, launched in 2000, is going to conclude its activities by the end of 2006, a new programme is expected to start in the framework of the EU structural funds programming period 2007-2013. The present article illustrates the results of a survey on “spatial policies” in the Alpine area, conducted for a “Prospective Study” in view of the elaboration of the forthcoming programme. A review of spatial policies in the framework of EU territorial governance processes introduces the illustration of the survey results, which are based on the analysis of 70 spatial policy documents currently in force, at different institutional levels, in the Alpine area. A section of conclusions suggests how, in the light of the presented survey, the “Alpine Space” territorial cooperation programme could be improved in 2007-2013.