RT Book, Section
T1 CLLD, Urban Agenda and Borderland. Governance and Innovation for the Sustainable Development of the Eurocity of Guadiana (Portugal-Spain)
A1 Felicidades García, Jesús
A1 Pazos García, Francisco José
AB Governance, innovation and spatial planning are recognised as dimensions of the territorial development process in the European Regional Policy. This paper explores the joint possibilities of Community-led Local Development (CLLD), as an approach that encourages the participation of local actors in sustainable urban development, and the EU Urban Agenda, as a strategic spatial planning instrument, applied in the cross-border area of the Eurocity of Guadiana. It draws on existing literature and the empirical development of the INTERREG EuroGuadiana 2020 project to define the objectives of the process and the key components of the territorial governance scheme. It shows that the urban governance formula for cross-border cities, based on the combination of European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), CLLD and Urban Agenda, represents an opportunity both to strengthen the organisational capacities of partnerships and to implement inclusive and participatory action plans. It is concluded that the Eurocity of Guadiana must overcome limiting factors such as community resistance to change, as well as the paradox of planning across borders and the demands of cross-border governance.
PB Springer
SN 978-3-031-34210-3
SN 978-3-031-34211-0 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25181
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/25181
LA eng
NO Felicidades-García, J., Pazos-García, F.J. (2023). CLLD, Urban Agenda and Borderland. Governance and Innovation for the Sustainable Development of the Eurocity of Guadiana (Portugal-Spain). In: Bevilacqua, C., Balland, PA., Kakderi, C., Provenzano, V. (eds) New Metropolitan Perspectives. NMP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 639. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34211-0_11
NO This work is part of the INTERREG V-A project "European Laboratory for Cross-border Governance: Eurocity of the Guadiana 2020" (0592_EUROGUADIANA_2020_E_S) Spain-Portugal, of which the Institute for Local Development (PAIDI HUM-260) is the coordinating research group at the University of Huelva (Spain).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026