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A Concrete Challenge for Territorial Governance in Europe: Regional Participation to EU Cohesion Policy

A Concrete Challenge for Territorial Governance in Europe: Regional Participation to EU Cohesion Policy

Sara De Martino
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781799873914|ISBN10: 1799873919|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799873921|EISBN13: 9781799873938
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch015
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De Martino, Sara. "A Concrete Challenge for Territorial Governance in Europe: Regional Participation to EU Cohesion Policy." Management and Conservation of Mediterranean Environments, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho and José Martín Gallardo, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 260-272. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch015

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De Martino, S. (2021). A Concrete Challenge for Territorial Governance in Europe: Regional Participation to EU Cohesion Policy. In R. Castanho & J. Martín Gallardo (Eds.), Management and Conservation of Mediterranean Environments (pp. 260-272). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch015

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De Martino, Sara. "A Concrete Challenge for Territorial Governance in Europe: Regional Participation to EU Cohesion Policy." In Management and Conservation of Mediterranean Environments, edited by Rui Alexandre Castanho and José Martín Gallardo, 260-272. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch015

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Abstract

Since 2008, the year of the impact of the financial and economic crisis in Europe, many decisional processes have been subjected to a progressive re-nationalization tendency. The last reforms of EU Cohesion Policy have included some measures—the definition of the plans and the allocation process of the funds through national programmes and the thematic concentration—that are considered the expression of the centralization of powers and competencies that challenge the whole complex system of governance relations in Europe. These centralized trends impacted the territorial governance, the place-based approach to regional development, and the role of regions in policy making itself. This chapter aims to shed light on a specific historical period in which it has been experimented a declining support for territorial approaches in European policy making by presenting a complete definition of concept of territorial governance and by deeply discussing the theoretical framework in which regions have started to activate themselves and to participate to decisional processes at European level.

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