Territorial cohesion under pressure? Welfare policy and planning responses in Austrian and Swedish Peripheries
- Author(s)
- Elisabeth Gruber, Daniel Rauhut, Alois Humer
- Abstract
Austria and Sweden were both relatively unaffected by the eco-
nomic crisis, challenges of the provision of welfare still exist, at least
in peripheries. Economic downturn and outmigration have limited
demands and increased the costs for services of general interest.
This paper aims to discuss welfare policy and planning strategies
for peripheries from a planning cultural sensitive perspective. It will
answer how much the value of territorial cohesion is under pressure
for peripheries in traditional welfare states, identifying a mismatch
between policy levels. The results indicate a stepwise mainstreaming
of competitiveness goals in favour of urban regions, leaving the
challenges of peripheries to policy responses of single municipalities.- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), University of Eastern Finland
- Journal
- Papers in Regional Science
- Volume
- 98
- Pages
- 115-132
- No. of pages
- 18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12344
- Publication date
- 2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507014 Regional development, 507012 Spatial structure
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Geography, Planning and Development
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/0913762b-de06-41c3-93ff-976d84cb9bbc