The European Union recognises a territorial dimension of cohesion policy, but there is no official definition of what territorial cohesion means. It is clear enough, however, that it relates both to polycentric development and to multi-level governance. These two concepts are as familiar in European planning discourses as not very easily translatable into planning practice. The present paper explores the possibility to identify a spatial unit for planning, addressed to foster polycentric development and multi-level governance in the cohesion policy implementation process. The idea of ‘interdependent territorial systems’ (ITS) gushes out from a case study on North-Western Italy, developed by the author within a wider research, which the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures has promoted in order to represent a spatial vision of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) for EU cohesion policy. ITS are proposed indeed as the representative basis of a ‘voluntary scenario’ to be pursued instead of the ‘trend scenarios’ of local, regional or national centralisms.

'Interdependent territorial systems' as spatial units for cohesion policy: a case study on North-Western Italy / JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto. - ELETTRONICO. - (2007), pp. 1-9. (Intervento presentato al convegno Planning for the risk society tenutosi a Napoli (Italy) nel 11-14 luglio 2007).

'Interdependent territorial systems' as spatial units for cohesion policy: a case study on North-Western Italy

JANIN RIVOLIN YOCCOZ, Umberto
2007

Abstract

The European Union recognises a territorial dimension of cohesion policy, but there is no official definition of what territorial cohesion means. It is clear enough, however, that it relates both to polycentric development and to multi-level governance. These two concepts are as familiar in European planning discourses as not very easily translatable into planning practice. The present paper explores the possibility to identify a spatial unit for planning, addressed to foster polycentric development and multi-level governance in the cohesion policy implementation process. The idea of ‘interdependent territorial systems’ (ITS) gushes out from a case study on North-Western Italy, developed by the author within a wider research, which the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures has promoted in order to represent a spatial vision of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) for EU cohesion policy. ITS are proposed indeed as the representative basis of a ‘voluntary scenario’ to be pursued instead of the ‘trend scenarios’ of local, regional or national centralisms.
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