In search of territorial potentials

Midterm results by spring 2005

The ESPON Synthesis Report II presents integrated ESPON results (status spring 2005) on basic territorial structures, dynamics and policy impacts. It intends to contribute to the process of carrying through the re-launch of the Lisbon strategy and to enable a better understanding of the framework conditions necessary for identifying and mobilising the territorial capital of individual regions and of larger territories across Europe. The topics presented are one the one hand a series of combined indicators of (e.g. on Lisbon performance or labour markets) and on the other hand thematic reviews of territorial trends and policy impacts (e.g. demographic sustainability, natural hazards and influences on climate change and territorial impacts of EU sector policies).