Values in a vacuum? Towards an integrated multi‐level analysis of the governance of European space

The added value of transnational cooperation: Towards a new framework for evaluating learning and policy change

“…In the context of southern Europe, they have argued that alongside the ESDP, INTERREG has generated changes in the domestic patterns of spatial planning and regional policies, both in terms of approaches and of institutional capacity (Janin Rivolin, 2003;Böhme et al, 2004;Giannakourou, 2005;Pedrazzini, 2005;Janin Rivolin & Faludi, 2005). In the North Sea region, Dabinett and Richardson (2005) and Dabinett (2006) suggest that INTERREG has contributed to the diffusion of spatial ideas such as polycentric development.…”

“…This is of strong relevance to the spatial development policy field: there is no EU competence in spatial planning, and yet, the EU has played a role in the promotion of a specific 'European spatial planning agenda', discursively shaped by certain normative concepts and 'spatial planning ideas' Böhme et al, 2004). Recent developments in political science on new mechanisms of 'horizontal Europeanization' have therefore been taken on board by European spatial planning scholars.…”

Bridging the Knowledge-gap Between the Old and the New: Regional Marine Experience Production in Orust, Västra Götaland, Sweden

“…Regionalization in Sweden has changed this picture (Böhme et al, 2004), and Västra Götaland region is one of two Swedish test cases for devolving responsibilities to the regional level. This started in 1999 and is now formally established.…”

Engaging in European Spatial Planning: A Central and Eastern European Perspective on the Territorial Cohesion Debate

“…That is to say how the qualities of knowledge resources (defined as ideas, data and arguments), filtered through power configurations, translate into the organizational and institutional forces that shape the course of policy development (cf. Böhme et al, 2004). This perspective calls for a further exploration of the concept of evidence-based planning (cf.…”