Multi-level regional development governance: A European typology

Cotella, Giancarlo; Rivolin, U. Janin; Pede, Elena; Pioletti, Maurizio

doi:10.18778/1231-1952.28.1.11

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“…Administrative traditions and the quality of governance may influence development activities and the functioning of spatial governance systems (Cotella et al, 2021), hence, CE-related development at the city region level may also be impacted. As shown in this paper, both centralised waste governance and the limitations to development it causes can hamper the transition towards circularity.…”

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Efforts and Barriers Shifting a City Region Towards Circular Transition – Lessons from a Living Lab from Pécs, Hungary

Varjú

Óvári

Mezei

et al. 2022

Future Cities and Environment

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A Circular Economy is usually seen as achieving 'zero waste' and closing the material flow loops. However, multiple governance, economic, legal, socio-spatial, cultural, and behavioural barriers may easily hamper the transition. This study summarises the lessons learned from the waste flow analysis and living lab (LL) of a case study from the H2020 REPAiR project. It shows how the results of a waste flow analysis created for an urban area can help decision-makers to co-create new place-based eco-innovative solutions and hence shift the city towards circularity. At the same time, during the living lab process, it became clear that the decision support method alone is not enough to co-create or co-design new innovations, in addition the regulatory environment and the peculiarities of governance may also present multiple obstacles. The centralised governance in Hungary and the centralisation tendency in waste management and secondary resource use hamper efficient local resource management. The work in the LL showed that a centralised governance structure hinders not only the co-creation of new solutions but also the transfer of good practices from other peri-urban areas. This is important because a society that is generally less innovative and less developed at the beginning of sustainability transition is innovating for the first time via the transfer of eco-innovative solutions. Our paper shows that the governance structure of a given spatial unit (i.e. a city region) may be a significant factor in the successful or unsuccessful adoption of good practices and for the circular transition, as may system adaptability, the level of local technological development, the level of integration of actors, strategies, interests, and policy interventions.

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Efforts and Barriers Shifting a City Region Towards Circular Transition – Lessons from a Living Lab from Pécs, Hungary

Varjú

Óvári

Mezei

et al. 2022

Future Cities and Environment

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“…In contrast, bottom-up approaches may rely solely on local planning incentives [6]. Multi-level governance approaches may take up varying demands (e.g., state, region, municipality levels) [38], but also pose challenges, leading to structural inconsistencies and normative ambiguity that make zoning intentions harder to implement [6 for Ireland,39 for Germany].…”

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Coordination challenges in wind energy development: Lessons from cross-case positive planning approaches to avoid multi-level governance ‘free-riding’

Weber

2023

Preprint

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Achieving national renewable energy targets presents multi-level governance challenges, such as uneven progress and discrepancies arising from varying subordinate specifications and incentives on wind energy development. Governments have commenced adopting ‘positive planning’ that aim to integrate energy targets with spatial and land use planning, yet detailed discussions regarding wind energy development remain scarce. This paper assesses three cases in Germany and Sweden within criteria-based explanatory case studies to provide planners and policy makers with knowledge on key factors, lessons learned, and challenges. Positive planning appears to center on a strong energy target focus, limited space, and a balanced approach, shaped by the socio-political context. While Germany more recently embraces positive planning, Sweden started ambitiously on a national level but encounters policy and planning challenges. Planning agencies play an important role in promoting wind energy targets at mid-scale levels; however, legally binding targets matter. Striking a balance between energy targets and addressing land use concerns without disregarding them requires managing a delicate trade-off. Early communication and inter-agency collaboration, as seen in Sweden, might facilitate identifying compromises, navigating trade-off between species protection and renewable energy and offering municipal incentives. Nonetheless, satisfactory spatial trade-offs for long-term proof of concept remains a challenge.

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“…Within this increasingly complex framework, the regional level plays a particularly relevant role, as it has been identified by the European Commission as the most functional level at which to program and manage the distribution of the European Structural and Investments Funds [4]. In particular, in several countries, the regional public administrations are required to develop Regional Operation Programs within the framework of the EU Cohesion Policy Programming periods, thus tailoring European and national priorities to the specific characteristics of their territories [5,6] 1 .…”

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“…On the other hand, it constitutes the ideal level to conjugate from a place-based perspective the implementation of strategic development objectives and the programming of resources, in a way that the former provides guidance to territorialize the latter, so that the latter meaningfully contributes to achieve the former [8,9]. How this coordination should occur, according to what means, and what results it is producing in the different countries are, however, subject to debate, as highlighted by a number of studies recently developed on the matter [4][5][6][10][11][12].…”

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Practicing Multilevel Governance: The Revision of the Piedmont Regional Territorial Plan

Todella,

Abastante,

Cotella

2024

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The regional level plays a relevant role in spatial governance and planning in Europe, as it constitutes the most suitable scale to both program European Union funding and territorialize international development strategies. In this light, regional spatial planning instruments play a crucial role in translating general objectives and recommendations (e.g., those included in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) in place-based implementation practices. This contribution reflects upon the implementation of a methodology aimed at engaging a multidisciplinary team of students in the revision of the Piedmont regional territorial plan (PTR), developed in close cooperation with the regional public administration. This problem-based learning activity supported the integration of supranational strategic objectives and funding streams with the regional territorial development priorities. In so doing, it represents a possible way to practice multilevel governance in concrete terms, employing the PTR as a meaningful catalyst.

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Multi-level regional development governance: A European typology

Cited by 26 publications

References 34 publications

Efforts and Barriers Shifting a City Region Towards Circular Transition – Lessons from a Living Lab from Pécs, Hungary

Efforts and Barriers Shifting a City Region Towards Circular Transition – Lessons from a Living Lab from Pécs, Hungary

Coordination challenges in wind energy development: Lessons from cross-case positive planning approaches to avoid multi-level governance ‘free-riding’

Practicing Multilevel Governance: The Revision of the Piedmont Regional Territorial Plan

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