Territorial Cohesion

1. Preface — Introduction
Dietmar Scholich

2. Status and Perspectives of Territorial Cohesion with Respect to European Spatial Development Policy (ESDP) — Normative and Governance Aspects
Carl-Heinz David

3. Territorial Cohesion — Between Expectations, Disparities and Contradictions
Maroš Finka

4. Regional Disparities — Reasons Enough to Run a Cohesion-Oriented Spatial Policy?
Hans-Peter Gatzweiler, Wendelin Strubelt

5. Territorial Cohesion, Brain Drain and Digital Divide
Hans-Joachim Bürkner, Ulf Matthiesen

6. Environmental Protection needs good Administration: Ecological Applications of the New Legal Instrument “European Groupings of Territorial Co-operation (EGTC)”
Gerold Janssen

7. Suburbanisation, Suburbia and “Zwischenstadt”: Perspectives of Research and Policy
Joachim Burdack, Markus Hesse

8. Varying Costs of Living as Compensation for Regional Disparities in Germany
Rupert Kawka

9. Territorial Cohesion and Transboundary Governance: Insights from the Polish-German and the Czech-German Borders
Markus Leibenath, Robert Knippschild

10. Spatial Development Strategies in the Enlarged EU: ESPON Project 1.2.3 on Spatially Relevant Aspects of the Information Society
Kristine Müller, Sabine Zillmer

11. IRS Participates in EU-funded Research Project “Governance for Sustainability”
Eva Reisinger

Keywords: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geography (general), Civil Engineering, Regional Science, Human Geography, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice