Local governments (LGs) that are small and located in peripheral locations have several
challenges to introduce policies for increasing local firms' innovation activity compared to …

Despite the growing number of contributions comparing spatial planning in Europe (Reimer
et al., 2014; Nadin et al., 2018; Tulumello et al., 2020; Berisha et al., 2021a, 2023), scarce …

The attention of European Union (EU) institutions on the development dynamics that
characterise its regions has grown through time. However, it has translated into the need to …

This chapter examines the evolution of European spatial planning systems from 2000 in
respect to three defining characteristics:• integration or coordination of the impact of sectoral …

Policy-making aims at shaping the future. The future however is uncertain and cannot be
predicted. Successful policy-making therefore requires the capacity to imagine the general …

Local land use plans stipulating where and how development may take place can be found
across all European countries (Nadin et al., 2018; Ryser and Franchini, 2015). In some …

European territorial governance and spatial planning can be conceptualised as potential
key mechanisms for the effective pursuit of the goals of European Union (EU) cohesion …