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COORTE – TERRITORIAL COHESION: THE VALUE ADDED OF THE CONCEPT FOR SPATIAL PLANNING

Type: 
National
State: 
Ongoing
Research Groups: 
Geographic Modeling, Cities and Spatial Planning
Development: 
Seed projects
Lead Researcher: 
Margarida Pereira
e-Geo Team: 
Margarida Pereira (responsible), José Afonso Teixeira, Gonçalo Poeta Fernandes, Maria Adelaide Carranca (PhD Student), Jorge Neves (PhD Student), Daniel Gil (MA), Tânia Vicente (MA), and Sandro Ferreira.
Funding: 
Pluriannual Funding Programme – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia FCT
Duration: 
2008/2010
Objectives: 
  • To discuss the relevance of the concept of territorial cohesion;
  • To show the importance of scale in the conceptualization of territorial cohesion;
  • To create a database to support the building up of indicators;  
  • To propose a set of indicators aiming at measuring the evolution of territorial cohesion at different scales;
  • To evaluate the way the existing territorial management tools compete (or not) with territorial cohesion;
  • To analyse the impacts of sectorial policies in territorial cohesion; 
  • To discuss the role of spatial planning and urban policies in territorial cohesion.
Events
June 2024
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