Territoriality in the Strategies and Practices of the Territorial Cohesion Policy of the European Union: Territorial Challenges in Implementing "Soft Planning"

European Planning Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 481-500

  Luukkonen, Juho ^a   Moilanen, Helka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; SPATIAL PLANNING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT; TERRITORIALITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84858308535     PISSN: 09654313     EISSN: 14695944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2012.651806     Document Type: Article

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