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Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe

Deliverables

Literature Review on Disaggregation Methodologies

Review of literature on disaggregation methodologies

Report on Understandings of Terriorial Inequalities and Policies in the EU

Summary report from Work Package

Innovation Management Plan

The plan will cover the identification of opportunities for innovation, ‘market appraisal’ and target beneficiaries (in this case policymakers at EU, national and regional scales), dissemination methods, potential obstacles and risks, and issues concerning intellectual property.

Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts

This will define and explain key terms and concepts employed in IMAJINE

Report on Economic Growth and Spatial Inequalities

Report on quantitative and qualitative analysis of links between spatial inequality and economic growth

Summary of Previous Surveys

Review of existing mass and elite surveys concerned with attitudes towards spatial justice, mobility and territorial cohesion.

Policy Briefing

Briefing paper for policy audiences on IMAJINE findings and recommendations for EC Policy Briefings series

Report on Quantile Decomposition Methods

Report on application of quantile decomposition methods to analyse spatial variations in income distribution

Report on Spatio-temporal ESDA on GDP, Income and Educational Attainment in European Regions

Report on application of exploratory spatial data analysis techniques to indictors of inequality at the regional scale

Systematic Review of Territorial Cohesion Programme Evaluations

Report on review of evaluations of EU programmes aimed at territorial cohesion

Review of Literature on Definitions of Economic Growth

Literature review on definitions of economic growth

Conceptual Review of Scientific Literature

Summary of review of scientific literature on spatial justice, territorial inequalities and territorial cohesion

WP4 Summary Report

Final report from the experimental survey on solidarity and territorial cohesion

Summary Report on Multi-level Policymaking

Report on empirical analysis of multi-level policymaking in case study regions

Report on the Impact of EU Territorial Cohesion Policy

Report on qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of European Territorial Cohesion policy in promoting economic growth

Policy Recommendations

Recommendations to EU, national and regional policymakers from the IMAJINE research

Review and Methodology

Review of approaches to participatory scenario building and testing and outline of methodology for WP8

Synthesis Report on Migration Flows

Analysis of existing literature and data on migration flows within and to the European Union

Summary WP6 Report

Summary report on research in WP6 on Multi-level Policymaking and Territorial Inequalities

Summary WP7 Report

Summary of research in WP7 on Autonomy Movements and Social, Economic and Spatial Justice

Conceptual Framework for Empirical Research

Review of literature on multi-level policymaking, EU studies, and policy theory and outline of a conceptual framework for research in WP6

Summary Report on Evidence-Based Policy Learning

Report for policymakers and practitioners on meaningful evidence-based policy learning across regions and scales

Scientific and popular publications

Submission by all participants of papers for publication in scientific journals, and articles for popular newspapers, magazines, blogs and websites.

Report on Economic Growth in EU Territories

Report on analysis of spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in economic growth

Report on Participatory Scenario Building Exercises

Report on participatory scenario building exercises with regional stakeholders envisaging and testing potential policy responses to territorial inequalities

Synthesis Report on Perceived and Actual Spatial Inequalities and Migration

Reports discussing analysis of relationships between migration flows, perceptions of spatial inequalities and quantitative measures of spatial inequality

Working Paper on Fiscal Equalisation and Transfers

Comparative analysis of taxes and social transfers as mechanisms to mitigate territorial inequalities

Review of Official Data

Summary report reviewing publically available official data on territorial inequalities

Report on Inequality Indices at Local Level

Report comparing existing indices of inequality at a local scale with new data produced through local estimation techniques.

Policy Report on the Relational Qualities of Spatial Justice

Analysis of research from WPs 1-7, focusing in particular on how notions of spatial justice are understood in relational terms.

Synthetic Policy Report on Links Between Social Equality, Service Delivery and Regional Autonomy

Analysis of research from WPs 1-6 focusing in particular on the data that shows the productive connections and tensions between the themes examine in the different work packages.

Synthesis Report on Migrant Perceptions of Spatial Qualities

Report on analysis of perceptions of regional qualities by migrants and established residents

Summary Report on Comparative Framing Analysis of Autonomy Parties' Political Claims

Report on 'framing' analysis of key party documents (e.g. manifestoes, key policy documents and speeches) from 1980 to the present in order to identify and compare the main types of arguments used by autonomist parties over time to justify claims for political autonomy across cases.

Initial Outline of Scenarios
Briefings on COVID-19, Territorial Inequalities and Spatial Justice

Series of briefing reports on aspects of the impacts of COVID-19 on territorial inequalities and implications for spatial justice

Summary Report on Explanation and Impact of Autonomy Movements' Political Claims

Report on analysis of the arguments use by autonomy movements to justify their political demands and relationships between the framing of autonomist politics and electoral outcomes.

Review of Discourses of Territorial Inequalities in EU Policies

This report will discuss how territorial inequalities and issues of spatial justice have been framed within EU policy

Conceptual Framework and Contextual Case Study Report

Review of existing literature on autonomy movements informing the development of a conceptual framework for research in WP7 and introduction to case study regions with discussion of contextual data.

Website and blog

Project website and blog.

Smartphone/tablet app, Infographics

Development and launch of smartphone/tablet application ‘Atlas of Territorial Inequalities in Europe’ and production of infographics for use with social media.

Collation of Accessible Textual, Visual and Performance Based Accounts of Spatial Justice in Europe

A collection of textual, visual and performance-based representations of spatial justice and territorial inequalities based on data from WPs 1-7, for dissemination to a variety of audiences. This may the take form of infographs, posters, cartoons, short videos, blog posts or other media forms, as led by the research participants.

Publications

Spatial Disaggregation of Social Indicators: An Info-Metrics Approach

Author(s): Esteban Fernandez-Vazquez, Alberto Diaz Dapena, Fernando Rubiera-Morollon, Ana Viñuela
Published in: Social Indicators Research, Issue 152/2, 2020, Page(s) 809-821, ISSN 0303-8300
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02455-z

Migrant and Refugee Impact on Well-Being in Rural Areas: Reframing Rural Development Challenges in Greece

Author(s): Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Published in: Frontiers in Sociology, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2297-7775
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.592750

Two-tier EU citizenship: Disposable Eastern European workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Magdalena Ulceluse; Felix Bender
Published in: Organization, Issue Volume 29 Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 449-459, ISSN 1350-5084
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13505084211061229

The impact of regional inequality on economic growth: a spatial econometric approach

Author(s): Domenica Panzera, Paolo Postiglione
Published in: Regional Studies, 2021, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0034-3404
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1910228

The politics of policy design

Author(s): Paul Cairney
Published in: EURO Journal on Decision Processes, Issue Volume 9, 2021, Page(s) Article 100002, ISSN 2193-9438
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejdp.2021.100002

Beyond the nation-state: territory, solidarity and welfare in a multiscalar Europe

Author(s): Michael Keating
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, Issue 9/3, 2021, Page(s) 331-345, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1742779

The future of public health policymaking after COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review of lessons from Health in All Policies

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny, Heather Mitchell
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 23, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13178.2

The Framing Territorial Demands (FraTerr) dataset: a novel approach to conceptualizing and measuring regionalist actors’ territorial strategies

Author(s): Anwen Elias, Linda Basile, Nuria Franco Guillen and Edina Szöcsik
Published in: Regional and Federal Studies, Issue Early view, 2022, ISSN 1359-7566
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2021.1964481

Where the city lights shine? Measuring the effect of sprawl on electricity consumption in Spain

Author(s): Alfredo Cartone, Alberto Díaz Dapena, Raquel Langarita, Fernando Rubiera-Morollón
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue Vol 105, 2021, Page(s) Article 105425, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105425

Aluerakenne, alueellinen erivertaisuus ja Suomen aluekehitys [Spatial structures, relational inequality, and Finnish regional development]

Author(s): Sami Moisio and Heikki Sirviö
Published in: Terra, Issue Volume 133 Issue 3, 2021, Page(s) 113-127, ISSN 0040-3741
Publisher: Geographical Society of Finland
DOI: 10.30677/terra.100115

Deprivation at local level: Practical problems and policy implications for the province of Milan

Author(s): Alfredo Cartone, Domenica Panzera
Published in: Regional Science Policy & Practice, Issue 13/1, 2021, Page(s) 43-61, ISSN 1757-7802
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12339

Economic Convergence in EU NUTS 3 Regions: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Author(s): Paolo Postiglione, Alfredo Cartone, Domenica Panzera
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 12/17, 2020, Page(s) 6717, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su12176717

‘The grass is greener on the other side’: the relationship between the Brexit referendum results and spatial inequalities at the local scale

Author(s): Diana Gutiérrez-Posada, Maria Plotnikova and Fernando Rubiera-Morollón
Published in: Papers in Regional Science, Issue Volume 100 Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) 1481-1500, ISSN 1435-5957
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12630

Rethinking lifestyle and middle‐class migration in “left behind” regions

Author(s): Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins, Rhys Dafydd Jones
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2021, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2495

Mapping poverty at the local level in Europe: A consistent spatial disaggregation of the AROPE indicator for France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom

Author(s): Alberto Díaz Dapena, Esteban Fernández Vázquez, Fernando Rubiera Morollón, Ana Viñuela
Published in: Regional Science Policy & Practice, Issue 13/1, 2021, Page(s) 63-81, ISSN 1757-7802
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12379

Why is health improvement policy so difficult to secure? [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny and John Boswell
Published in: Open Research Europe, 2022, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: DG-RTD
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.14841.1

Lessons from policy theories for the pursuit of equity in health, education and gender policy

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny, Sean Kippin and Heather Mitchell
Published in: Policy and Politics, Issue Early view, 2022, ISSN 0305-5736
Publisher: The Policy Press
DOI: 10.1332/030557321x16487239616498

Reclaiming the knowledge society from ‘urban economization’: thinking with the Frankfurt School

Author(s): Veit Bachmann and Sami Moisio
Published in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Issue Volume 110 Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 62-87, ISSN 2365-3124
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
DOI: 10.25162/gz-2022-0001

Justifying Secession in Catalonia: Resolving Grievances or a Means to a Better Future?

Author(s): Anwen Elias and Nuria Franco Guillen
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue Volume 9 Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v9i4.4561

Aspirations, Agency and Well-being of Romanian Migrants in Greece

Author(s): Apostolos G. Papdopoulos and Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Published in: Population, Space and Place, Issue Early view, 2022, Page(s) Article e2584, ISSN 1544-8452
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2584

Policy design for territorial equity in multi-level and multi-sectoral political systems: Comparing health and education strategies

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Sean Kippin, Emily St Denny and Heather Mitchell
Published in: Regional Science Policy and Practice, Issue Early view, 2021, ISSN 1757-7802
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12466

Inequality as a driver of migration: A social network analysis

Author(s): Maria Plotnikova, Magdalena Ulceluse
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2021, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2497

Migration and Refugee Flows in Greece in the Post-Crisis Period: Exploring Different Claims for Socio-Spatial Justice

Author(s): Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Published in: Autonomie locali e servizi sociali, Issue 3/2019, 2019, Page(s) 401-423, ISSN 0392-2278
Publisher: Il Mulino
DOI: 10.1447/96701

Situating spatial justice in counter-urban lifestyle mobilities: relational rural theory in a time of crisis

Author(s): Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins; Marie Mahon; Maura Farrell; Rhys Dafydd Jones
Published in: Geografiska Annaler B, Human Geography, Issue Early view, 2022, ISSN 1468-0467
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/04353684.2022.2086895

COVID-19 and the second exams fiasco across the UK: four nations trying to avoid immediate policy failure

Author(s): Sean Kippin and Paul Cairney
Published in: British Politics, Issue Early view, 2022, ISSN 1746-918X
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41293-022-00202-1

Territorial Cohesion of What and Why? The Challenge of Spatial Justice for EU’s Cohesion Policy

Author(s): Mikko Weckroth, Sami Moisio
Published in: Social Inclusion, Issue 8/4, 2020, Page(s) 183-193, ISSN 2183-2803
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/si.v8i4.3241

Measuring the Spatial Dimension of Regional Inequality: An Approach Based on the Gini Correlation Measure

Author(s): Domenica Panzera, Paolo Postiglione
Published in: Social Indicators Research, Issue 148/2, 2020, Page(s) 379-394, ISSN 0303-8300
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-019-02208-7

The unwritten laws of migration: reflections on inequalities, aspirations and cultures of migration

Author(s): Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Published in: Europa XXI, Issue Volume 37, 2019, Page(s) 22-36, ISSN 1429-7132
Publisher: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.7163/eu21.2019.37.2

Exploring Regional Economic Convergence in Romania: A Spatial Modelling Approach

Author(s): Goschin, Zizi
Published in: Eastern Journal of European Studies, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 127-146, ISSN 2068-6633
Publisher: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press

Governing the future and the search for spatial justice: Wales’ Well-being of Future Generations Act

Author(s): Rhys Jones
Published in: Fennia - International Journal of Geography, Issue 197/1, 2019, Page(s) 8-24, ISSN 1798-5617
Publisher: Geographical Society of Finland
DOI: 10.11143/fennia.77781

Governing political spaces through “future work” – commentary to Jones

Author(s): Sami Moisio
Published in: Fennia - International Journal of Geography, Issue 197/1, 2019, Page(s) 132-136, ISSN 1798-5617
Publisher: Finnish Geographical Society
DOI: 10.11143/fennia.80205

Determinants of immigrants' concentration at local level in Spain: Why size and position still matter

Author(s): Ana Viñuela, Diana Gutiérrez Posada, Fernando Rubiera Morollón
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2019, Page(s) e2247, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2247

Beyond GDP: an analysis of the socio-economic diversity of European regions

Author(s): Kassoum Ayouba, Julie Le Gallo, Andrés Vallone
Published in: Applied Economics, 2019, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0003-6846
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1646885

A Data-Weighted Prior Estimator for Forecast Combination

Author(s): Esteban Fernández-Vázquez, Blanca Moreno, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
Published in: Entropy, Issue 21/4, 2019, Page(s) 429, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e21040429

A tale of three villages: Local housing policies, well‐being and encounters between residents and immigrants

Author(s): Magdalena Ulceluse, Bettina Bock, Tialda Haartsen
Published in: Population, Space and Place, 2021, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2467

Immigrants’ spatial concentration: region or locality attractiveness?

Author(s): Ana Viñuela
Published in: Population, Space and Place, Issue Volume 28, 2021, Page(s) Article e2530, ISSN 1544-8452
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2530

The future of education equity policy in a COVID-19 world: a qualitative systematic review of lessons from education policymaking

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Sean Kippin
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13834.1

From Territorial Cohesion to Regional Spatial Justice: The Well‐Being of Future Generations Act in Wales

Author(s): Rhys Jones, Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins, Michael Woods
Published in: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Issue 44/5, 2020, Page(s) 894-912, ISSN 0309-1317
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12909

Sovereignty of what and for whom? The political mobilisation of sovereignty claims by the Italian Lega and Fratelli d’Italia

Author(s): Linda Basile and Rossella Borri
Published in: Comparative European Politics, Issue Volume 20, 2022, Page(s) 365-389, ISSN 1472-4790
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41295-022-00273-w

The COVID-19 exams fiasco across the UK: four nations and two windows of opportunity

Author(s): Sean Kippin, Paul Cairney
Published in: British Politics, 2021, ISSN 1746-918X
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41293-021-00162-y

Policy learning to reduce inequalities: the search for a coherent Scottish gender mainstreaming policy in a multilevel UK

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny, Sean Kippin
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, Issue 9/3, 2021, Page(s) 412-433, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1837661

Addressing spatial justice at lower territorial levels: some insights from the Central and Eastern European countries’ perspective

Author(s): Daniela Luminita Constantin
Published in: Regional Science Inquiry, Issue Volume 13 Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 315-326, ISSN 1791-7735
Publisher: Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists

Explaining Spatial Patterns Of Incapacity Benefit Claimant Rolls

Author(s): Maria Plotnikova
Published in: Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Issue 14 (2), 2020, Page(s) 35-48, ISSN 1843-8520
Publisher: Romanian Regional Science Association

Rethinking The Regional Bounds of Justice: A Scoping Review Of Spatial Justice in EU Regions

Author(s): Bram van Vulpen, Bettina Bock
Published in: Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Issue 14 (2), 2020, Page(s) 5-34, ISSN 1843-8520
Publisher: Romanian Regional Science Association

Principal component analysis for geographical data: the role of spatial effects in the definition of composite indicators

Author(s): Alfredo Cartone, Paolo Postiglione
Published in: Spatial Economic Analysis, Issue 16/2, 2021, Page(s) 126-147, ISSN 1742-1772
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2020.1775876

The social and spatial mobility strategies of migrants: Romanian migrants in rural Greece

Author(s): Loukia-Maria Fratsea and Apostolos Papdopoulos
Published in: International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions, 2020, Page(s) 37-51, ISBN 9781839103575
Publisher: Routledge

The social and spatial mobility strategies of migrants: Romanian migrants in rural Greece

Author(s): Loukia-Maria Fratsea and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
Published in: International Labour Migration to Europe's Rural Regions, 2020, Page(s) 37-51, ISBN 9781003022367
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003022367

How Can Policy Theory Help to Address the Expectations Gap in Preventive Public Health and ‘Health in All Policies’?

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Emily St Denny and Heather Mitchell
Published in: Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health, 2022, Page(s) 239-265, ISBN 978-3-030-98985-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-98985-9

Re-conceptualising Territorial Cohesion Through the Prism of Spatial Justice: Critical Perspectives on Academic and Policy Discourses

Author(s): Rhys Jones, Sami Moisio, Mikko Weckroth, Michael Woods, Juho Luukkonen, Frank Meyer & Judith Miggelbrink
Published in: Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial Policies in Europe, 2019, Page(s) 97-120, ISBN 978-9811-311895
Publisher: Springer Nature

Rural Spatial Justice

Author(s): Michel Woods
Published in: GAM: Grazer Architektur Magazin / Graz Architecture Magazine, Issue 15, 2019, Page(s) 44-55, ISBN 978-3-86859-854-4
Publisher: Jovis Verlag

Does Cohesion Policy Affect Territorial Inequalities and Regional Development?

Author(s): Lionel Vedrine, Julie Le Gallo
Published in: EU Cohesion Policy and Spatial Governance: Territorial, Social and Economic Challenges, 2021, Page(s) 156-170, ISBN 9781839103575
Publisher: Edward Elgar

Territorial Cohesion Policy and Spatial Development in Greece.

Author(s): Panagiotis Artelaris
Published in: IMAJINE Working Papers, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences

The Regional Effects of Fiscal Adjustments

Author(s): Panagiotis Th. Konstantinou and Margarita Katsimi
Published in: IMAJINE Working Papers, Issue 2, 2022
Publisher: Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences

Public Policy to Reduce Inequalities across Europe: Hope versus Reality

Author(s): Paul Cairney, Michael Keating, Sean Kippin and Emily St Denny
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9780192898586
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Uncovering Territorial Inequalities and Spatial Justice In the EU- Editorial

Author(s): Maria Plotnikova, Ana Vinuela
Published in: Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Issue 18438520, 2020, Page(s) 1-4, ISSN 1843-8520
Publisher: Romanian Regional Science Association

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