ESPON Open Seminar
13-14 June 2012 in Aalborg
New European Territorial Evidence
for development of Regions and Cities
Structure of Intervention
Content
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A wider territorial perspective:
An inevitable component in policy development
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New ESPON Territorial Observation no. 6:
Territorial dynamics of European regions and cities in the
global economy
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Upcoming new ESPON evidence and new versions of key
tools
An enlarging territorial context
• Today a wider territorial
perspective is necessary
• No place can develop in
isolation
• Competition is worldwide and no longer a
zero-sum-game
World City Network,
2008
A wider territorial perspective is inevitable
Challenges for creating Growth and Cohesion:
‒ Economic downturn and crisis: Asymmetric impact,
recovery and
unemployment, young generation, regional diversity, innovation towards
green, low carbon economy
‒ Connecting and changing World: New emerging markets,
era of
new strong world economies (China, India, Brasil, etc.), new trade
patterns, gateways, world market integration of regions and cities
‒ Climate change: Diverse impacts,
adaptation capability and
vulnerability, CO2 reduction, new hazard patterns and territorial options
‒ Demographic changes: Ageing of the population,
internal migration
flows and external migration pressures, attraction of places
‒ Connectivity and accessibility: Infrastructure deficits,
transport
increase and saturation, environmentally friendly solutions, world links
‒ Energy challenge:
Security of supply, alternative energy sources,
fluctuation of energy prices, diversity of regional energy vulnerability
‒ EU enlargement:
Geographic integration, territorial imbalances,
integration of new territories, their regions and cities
Internet Users in the world, 1999-2009
Average annual growth rate
Territorial Observation no.6
Territorial dynamics in Europe:
Regions and cities in the global economy
1. Territorial dimensions of Europe in the global economy
−Points
for policy consideration
2. Trade between places in the world
3. Territories endowments of human mobility, R&D and
human capital
4. European cities in global networks
European cities in global networks
• Europe is the world hub for
transnational business
• Most of the headquarters are
located in the core area of
Europe (Pentagon)
• More than 57% of employees in
European transnational
headquarters work here
• Outside this area, many capital
cities play important roles
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Trade flows of containers, 2006
• Asia is now the dominant
maritime force
• East Asia is the dominant
destination for containers
from European ports
• Many smaller harbours are
specialised in West Asia
• Volume to other continents
is comparatively minor
• More polycentric port
pattern possible due to
internal multi-modal
connectivity
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Upcoming new ESPON evidence and
new versions of key tools
New Final Results until summer 2013 (1)
10 Applied Research projects:
• Land-use, Territorial cooperation, Transport accessibility,
Secondary growth poles, Specific types of territories,
Knowledge and Innovation, Globalisation, European seas,
Services of general interest and Spatial indicators for EU
2020.
11 Targeted Analyses:
• Potentials for rural regions, ESPON and TIA, Cross-border
strategies, Regional integrated strategies, Metropoles in
Central Europe, Metropolises (Paris, Berlin, Warsaw),
Territorial performance monitoring, Migration in rural
regions, Territorial governance, Regional monitoring of
R&D, Indicators for territorial cohesion and planning.
2 Transnational Networking Activity projects:
• Scales and ESPONTrain
New versions of ESPON tools
ESPON
Hyperatlas
(March 2011)
New versions of ESPON tools
ESPON
Database
(June 2012)
Currently,
the Data
ESPONbase
database contains app.
ESPON
1250 socio-economic indicators, covering 60
Hyperatlas
countries
in Europe and in the world.
The temporal coverage of the data is from 1950
to 2050.
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