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ESPON Blog | 9 April 2021
In Spain 80% of municipalities have lost population since 2011. Alt Maestrat is an interesting case due to its location (about an hour from the main urban centres), resulting in moderate remoteness but being not close enough for daily commuting. Furthermore, the area is located in a NUTS3 unit with above-average GDP growth and overall population increase.
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Workshops | 1 April 2021 | Event starts: 20 April 2021
Tourism is a leading and ever-growing economic sector outpacing the global economy with a 4% increase each year, according to the UNWTO Tourism Barometer 20191.
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ESPON Blog | 31 March 2021
A balanced demographic structure and thriving community is the success factor, and although some rural regions are growing and others are shrinking, there are some socio-economic common denominators that predetermine the success rate: such as good governance, access to high-paid jobs within a diversified economic environment, access to good public services and so on.
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Workshops | 10 February 2021 | Event starts: 25 February 2021
Natural and cultural heritage sites are among the main tourist attractions in Iceland, and a main factor in the rapid increase in foreign travellers in Iceland in recent years.
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ESPON Blog | 9 February 2021
Should future urban development be concentrated in and around big cities, in well-connected towns or along country roads? The SUPER project drew up three scenarios, presenting different modes of urbanization.
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Latest News | 5 February 2021
Strengthening the resilience of the Adriatic and Ionian Region through cooperation was the slogan of the 5th Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR), organised by the
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ESPON Blog | 2 February 2021
The SUPER project compiled a database of interventions in Europe that affect, or try to affect, urbanization and land use. The database was analysed to distil factors for success and sustainability.
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Latest News | 29 January 2021
The Minister of Spatial Planning, Claude Turmes, received on 28 January 2021 the new director of EGTC ESPON, Wiktor Szydarowski, for an exchange on the ESPON progr
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ESPON Blog | 29 January 2021
The European roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe
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Press Releases | 14 January 2021
Every day, about 250 football fields of land in Europe is converted to urban use. How and where does this typically occur? Are city-regions becoming more compact or diffuse?