Public Policies for Territorial Cohesion

Eduardo Medeiros is a Geography Professor (got the professionalization in 2002) and an Integrated Research Fellow in DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. He has a Ph.D. in Geography—Regional and Urban Planning, and has around 200 publications, including more than 50 published papers in international journals, 11 books, and 16 book chapters. His research interests are focused on EU Cohesion Policy, Territorial Impact Assessment, territorial cohesion, territorial development, territorial cooperation, environmental sustainability, and spatial planning. He is a DG REGIO (European Commission) an ESPON and URBACT III expert and a Horizon 2020 evaluator. He is also a Regional Studies Association Fellow. He has coordinated several international policy evaluation projects and was a member of DG REGIO and ESPON projects. He was invited as a project adviser and to write reports and position papers by DG REGIO and the World Bank. He was already invited to be a keynote speaker by several International Universities and EU institutions (European Commission and Committee of the Regions). He is a Member of the scientific and editorial committee of several journals and a Peer Reviewer of more than 35 international journals.

• Introduction: A handbook on territorial impact assessment (TIA).- Part 1: EU and national public policies for territorial cohesion.- EU policies and strategies and territorial cohesion.- National policies and territorial cohesion.- Part 2: Socioeconomic development policies for territorial cohesion.- Equal opportunities, fair work and social protection for increasing territorial cohesion: Impacts of COVID-19 for young people in Portuguese low-density territories.- Nonprofit organizations and territorial cohesion: The case of cross-border collaboration.- Part 3: Environmental sustainability policies territorial cohesion.- Environmental sustainability for territorial cohesion via the EU territorial agenda.- Sustainable urbanisation for territorial cohesion.- Part 4: Urban policies for territorial cohesion.- Urban and regional planning for territorial cohesion.- Spatial planning for territorial cohesion.- Part 5: Territorial cooperation and governance policies for territorial cohesion.- EU cohesion policy territorial cooperation for territorial cohesion.- Territorial governance via EGTCs for territorial cohesion.- Conclusions.