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Cross-border urban sustainable planning in USA and EU border cities
Medeiros, E.This article presents a comparison between cross-border urban sustainable planning strategies in two border cities. One is located in the European Union, along the Portuguese-Spanish border area (the Eurocity Elvas/Campo Maior//Badajoz). Another is located in North America, along the USA-Mexico border area (Nogales/Nogales). Supported by a literature review and interviews, the research concluded that cross-bord...
The role of non-profit organizations in territorial cohesion in cross-border re...
Potluka, O.; Schubnell, L.; Medeiros, E.; Weller, M.Cross-border regions usually suffer from barriers hindering networking and creating contact among people. On a sample of 244 non-profit organizations (NPOs) in the Upper-Rhine region at the French, German, and Swiss borders, the research used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to investigate how NPOs contribute to social capital creation and cross-border territorial cohesion, via the r...
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion?
Medeiros, E.; Scott, J.; Ferreira, R.; Boijmans, P.; Verschelde, N.; Guillermo-Ramírez, M.; Gyula, O.; Peyrony, J.; Soares, A.Understood in some conceptual analysis as a pillar of territorial cohesion and due to its critical role in promoting territorial integration, territorial cooperation is often presented as one of the major positive achievements of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. In this context, this article proposes a conceptual framework to assess the contribution of the European Territorial Cooperation process, including...
Post-Covid symptoms in EU cross-border cooperation
Ocskay, G.; Guillermo-Ramírez, M.; Medeiros, E.; Peyrony , J.The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the conditions of normal life in many aspects. However, it most impacted the life of people around national borders. What is more, while in other regions, after the successful vaccination campaigns, life begins to return normal, the borderlands still display signs of the effect of the pandemic, what we could call post-Covid symptoms. The study points out the symptoms which seem...
Assessing project appraisal of EU cohesion policy
Medeiros, E.In several countries, the EU Cohesion Policy (ECP) serves as the primary source of policy investment for regional development and cohesion, especially in what is known as Cohesion Countries, encompassing the group of less socioeconomic developed European Union countries. Hence, considering the development needs of several EU regions, it is crucial to implement ECP as effectively and efficiently as possible in t...
Assessing the impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability i...
Valente, B.; Medeiros, E.The operational programme for Sustainability and Use of Resources (POSEUR 2014-2020) is the most powerful mechanism of EU Cohesion Policy to be implemented in Portugal concerning sustainable environmental development. The programme has a place-based approach that attends to the territorial characteristics of the Portuguese regions. This study focused its analysis on the POSEURS’ main impacts on the Portuguese C...
Proposing a governance-related component and indicators evaluation matrix to as...
Medeiros, E.; Potluka, O.Governance is the political facet of ‘inclusiveness’, one of the three main pillars of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) projects, alongside ‘aesthetics’ and ‘sustainability’. Governance is embodied by rules and norms and implemented through hard tools (laws, planning designs and strategies, funding schemes, etc.) and soft tools (ways of decision-making, targeting, capacity building, etc.) to implement sustainable...
Administrative and organizational capacities of civil society in EU Cohesion Po...
Potluka, O.; Medeiros, E.Administrative capacities are among the crucial factors influencing success in European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy absorption. The current research concentrates on the public sector, while administrative capacities in other stakeholders are omitted. Our research focuses on whether local stakeholders from civil society have sufficient capacities to contribute effectively and efficiently to EU Cohesion Policy imp...
EU funding to promote climate change adaptation and risk prevention and managem...
Medeiros, E.Following the publication of the most recent (2018) National Spatial Policy Programme (Programa Nacional da Política de Ordenamento do Território—PNPOT), several critical development risks were identified for the Portuguese territory over the next few decades. These include expected rises in average temperatures and overall reduction of precipitation levels. This novel climate panorama can negatively impact hum...
Data and modelling for the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of policies
Medeiros, E.Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) is still a ‘new kid on the block’ on the panorama of policy evaluation methodologies. In synthesis, TIA methodologies are thematically holistic, multi-dimensional and require the analysis of a wide pool of data, not only of economic character, but also related with social, environmental, governance and planning processes, in all territorial scales. For that, TIA requires a we...