*Celebrating Spatial Planning at TU Delft: 2008-2019. Edited by Stead, Bracken, Rooij & Rocco
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
This is a summary of the achievements of the session Spatial Planning & Strategy of the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, led by Professor Vincent Nadin between 2008 and 2019.
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36 <strong>Sp<strong>at</strong>ial</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> & Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
RUFUS<br />
RUral FUture networkS<br />
AKKELIES VAN NES<br />
Fig. 15: Typology of rural regions, Final Report Summary - RUFUS (Rural Future Networks), available <strong>at</strong> https://cordis.europa.eu/<br />
project/rcn/89505/reporting/en.<br />
The objectives of the Common<br />
Agricultural Policy (CAP) have<br />
now extended well beyond<br />
support to agriculture, and there is<br />
much <strong>at</strong>tention on the multifunctional<br />
n<strong>at</strong>ure of rural areas beyond<br />
agriculture. This in turns brings the<br />
CAP into closer associ<strong>at</strong>ion with a<br />
wide range of other policy regimes<br />
(e.g. regional policy, sp<strong>at</strong>ial planning,<br />
environmental management,<br />
social policy, tourism, transport,<br />
energy policy). These sectoral<br />
regimes interact in complex ways;<br />
sometimes mutually reinforcing,<br />
sometimes contradicting each other,<br />
and with a determining effect on<br />
the territorial sp<strong>at</strong>ial sustainable<br />
development of rural areas<br />
The EU 7th framework project RU-<br />
FUS (Rural Future Networks) inves-<br />
tig<strong>at</strong>ed the interaction of policies<br />
in rural areas. It considered interaction<br />
across sectors and across<br />
government jurisdictions, vertically<br />
in the system of multilevel governance,<br />
and sp<strong>at</strong>ially across territorial<br />
jurisdictions. The research<br />
project aimed <strong>at</strong> understanding the<br />
combined effect of many policies<br />
on rural development and the<br />
scope for more integr<strong>at</strong>ed policy to<br />
address the specific endogenous<br />
potential of regions for more sustainable<br />
rural development.<br />
The <strong>TU</strong> <strong>Delft</strong> team was responsible<br />
for the Work Package 2 (knowledge<br />
management). Three main concepts<br />
were defined: multi-functionality,<br />
policy integr<strong>at</strong>ion, and territorial<br />
capital. These concept were elabor<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
in ten case studies. The <strong>TU</strong><br />
<strong>Delft</strong> team conducted two of the<br />
case studies in rural areas with very<br />
different drivers for rural development:<br />
Somerset in the UK and Kop<br />
van Noord-Holland in the Netherlands.<br />
The aim was reveal the<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ionships among policies on<br />
horizontal, vertical, and geographical<br />
dimensions, and to explain<br />
how, in combin<strong>at</strong>ion, they affect<br />
these two specific regions <strong>at</strong> the<br />
local level. The perceived need for<br />
policy integr<strong>at</strong>ion, the mechanisms<br />
employed, and their effectiveness,<br />
vary according to local drivers for<br />
rural development and institutional<br />
arrangements, but both cases raise<br />
questions about the quality of integr<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
of EU rural development<br />
policy and agriculture with other<br />
policy sectors.
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