OPEN DAYS 2010 Final Programme - European Commission - Europa

Spatially blind or spatially targeted policy? The challenge to achieve
desirable social, economic and environmental outcomes
The last year has seen a growing debate on the concept of place-based policy,
most notably within the OECD in the context of regional and rural development
policy and within the European Commission on the future of Cohesion Policy
leading to the Barca Report. The concept has been the subject of some criticism
through work such as the World Banks economic geography reports which place
more emphasis on spatially blind approaches. This session considers what is new
in this place-based turn and the conditions needed for successful implementation
of policy into practice.
The OPEN DAYS University
Tuesday 5 October 2010
05UNIV06
14:30 - 17:00
Venue: European Commission, Charlemagne
building CHAR-S2 (Room Jenkins)
Organiser: Regional Studies Association
Speakers: Andy Pike, University of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom;
Indermit Gill, Chief Economist of the Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank; Lewis
Dijkstra, European Commission, DG Regional
Policy, Brussels, Belgium; Philip McCann,
Professor, Faculty of Spatial Sciences,
University of Groningen, Netherlands; Ronald
Hall, European Commission, DG Regional
Policy, Brussels, Belgium
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