Territorial cohesion under pressure? Welfare policy and planning responses in Austrian and Swedish Peripheries

Autor(en)

Elisabeth Gruber, Daniel Rauhut, Alois Humer

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

Externe Organisation(en)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), University of Eastern Finland

Journal

Papers in Regional Science

Band

98

Seiten

115-132

Anzahl der Seiten

18

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12344

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

507014 Regionalentwicklung, 507012 Raumordnung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Geography, Planning and Development

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/territorial-cohesion-under-pressure-welfare-policy-and-planning-responses-in-austrian-and-swedish-peripheries(0913762b-de06-41c3-93ff-976d84cb9bbc).html