EU Cohesion Policy

Edited by Nicola Francesco Dotti, Independent Scholar, Brussels, Belgium, Ida Musiałkowska, Associate Professor and Head of Department of European Studies, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland, Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado, Professor of Urbanism and Urban Regeneration, Department of Urban and Spatial Planning, School of Architecture, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain and Julia Walczyk, Independent Scholar, United Nations' University UNU-MERIT, the Netherlands

Contents:

Foreword: EU Cohesion Policy an Interdisciplinary Approach xix
Preface xxi

1 Introduction to EU Cohesion Policy: A Multidisciplinary
Approach 1
Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ida Musiałkowska, Sonia De
Gregorio Hurtado and Julia Walczyk

PART I DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES
2 The origins of the EU Cohesion Policy: from regional
economic development to the place-based approach 10
Piotr Idczak, Ida Musiałkowska and Dagmara Kociuba
3 Regional economic theories as drivers of the EU Cohesion Policy 30
Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ugo Fratesi and Christian Oberst
4 A legal perspective on the origins and evolution of the EU
Cohesion Policy 47
Serafin Pazos-Vidal
5 The urban dimension of Cohesion Policy: insights into its
genealogy, evolution, and future potential 65
Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado
6 Quality of life, Cohesion Policy, and the European social model 84
Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins

PART II ASSESSING WHAT WORKS
7 Evaluation experience from the EU Cohesion Policy 100
Oto Potluka
8 The economic impacts of Cohesion Policy 114
Riccardo Crescenzi and Mara Giua
9 Financial engineering instruments: implementation,
governance challenges and lessons learned 125
Claudia Gloazzo
10 Financial engineering instruments for urban investments 145
Piotr Idczak
11 The sub-regional dimension of European local
development policies 161
Alberto Bramanti and Paolo Rosso

PART III THE ‘WHEN’ AND ‘WHERE’ OF COHESION
POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
12 Smart specialisation strategy: a territorial governance perspective 180
Sebastien Bourdin
13 The environmental and sustainable development perspective 193
Silvia Grandi and Federico Martellozzo
14 A cross-border perspective on European local and regional
development policies 213
Alberto Bramanti and Paula Tulppo
15 Relationship between civil society and Cohesion Policy 229
Oto Potluka
16 Governance, regional development and management in Cohesion Policy
programmes: a geofinance and multilevel perspective 241
Paula Tulppo and Silvia Grandi

PART IV LOOKING FORWARD: THE FUTURE CHALLENGES
17 Future perspective: from multi-level to multi-layered
Cohesion Policy 256
Serafin Pazos-Vidal
18 Partnerships in Cohesion Policy for smart, inclusive
and sustainable growth: an operational framework for
effective multi-level policy implementation 275
Mattia Casula, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Nanetti
19 Cohesion Policy in post-pandemic Europe 292
John Bachtler, Sebastien Bourdin and Martin Ferry
20 Integrating EU climate action into Cohesion Policy:
instruments, developments and challenges 311
Ekaterina Domorenok
21 Cooperate to survive: a new age of policies for cohesion 329
Kai Böhme and Maria Toptsidou

PART V CONCLUSIONS
22 Lessons learnt and main messages 344
Nicola Francesco Dotti, Ida Musiałkowska, Sonia De
Gregorio Hurtado and Julia Walczyk

Index