Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Part I. Introduction: themes and content: 1. Regional planning and development in Europe: an introduction
  • Part II. The operations of the structural funds and regional restructuring: approaches and experiences: 2. The regional impact of the community's agricultural policy: the case of Greece
  • 3. The role of local development policies
  • 4. Regional convergence in Italy and Spain: a comparative perspective
  • 5. Enhancing the environmental com-ponent of structural fund regional programmes: the case of the East of Scotland
  • 6. Dynamic regional development in the EU Periphery: Ireland in the 1990s
  • Part III. Spatial planning, environmental management and regional development: 7. Strategic European spatial planning - Power, knowledge and rationality in policy evaluation
  • 8. The development planning process in Six English Regions
  • 9. Co - region planning in Europe: an idea put into practice
  • 10. The local not the Global? Regulating local environment policy making regimes
  • 11. Towards a multisectoral process for environmental protection and sustainable development in Rural Europe
  • Part IV. Evaluations of past experience and a view forward: 12. Towards coherence in European spatial planning?
  • 13. Non Grant Instruments and the Structural funds: the new alchemy?
  • 14. European Union Regional Programmes - Lessons from practice and a Review of Future Options