All Outputs (3)

Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance? (2018)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R., & Zimmermann, K. (2018). Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance?. In H. Heinelt, & S. Münch (Eds.), Handbook on Participatory Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Area-based initiatives (ABI) emerged in the 1980s and 1990s as a new policy tool in the context of urban regeneration in various European countries, most notably Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK, France and - somewhat later – Germany. The wider appli... Read More about Area-based initiatives – a facilitator for participatory governance?.

European spatial planning policy (2018)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, R., & Zimmermann, K. (2018). European spatial planning policy. In H. Heinelt, & S. Munch (Eds.), Handbook on EU Policies. Edward Elgar

In this chapter we argue that there has been a growing interest in spatial planning policies supported by the European Commission and a limited number of member states across Europe for several decades and that its roots lie in the planning systems a... Read More about European spatial planning policy.

Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change (2018)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., Dörfler, T., & Rothfuß, E. (2018). Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change. Politics and Governance, 6(1), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1210

© 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). The arena of locally embedded and engendered responses to climate change offers a particularly fruitful and challenging space in which to scrutinise the encounters between established form... Read More about Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change.