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Криза европске политике просторног развоја
The crisis of European spatial development policy

Author(s): Dejan P. Đorđević, Tijana Dabović
Subject(s): Governance, Public Law, Social development, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Српско географско друштво
Keywords: Spatial planning; Development policy; Territorial Cohesion; European Union;

Summary/Abstract: Although the European Union has no formal authority in the area of spatial policy, in sectoral policies can have a clear spatial impact. In this sense it conducts a de facto - and usually uncoordinated - form of spatial policy. An informal policy document produced six years ago sought to remedy this by offering an embryonic form of European spatial policy: the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP). So far, no follow-up has been produced. Is this because the current document is sufficient for addressing Europe’s spatial issues or because interest in this endeavour has waned? Or are we simply in a period of transition towards a new ESDP? This brief review deals with those dilemmas, from a specific point of view of the observers, both curious and worried.

  • Issue Year: 85/2005
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-118
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Serbian