Analysing How Environmental Concerns are Integrated in the Design of the EU Structural Funds Programmes


          

刊名:European Planning Studies
作者:MARGARITA ARGUELLES(Economia Aplicada, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, University of Oviedo)
CARMEN BENAVIDES(Economia Aplicada, Facultad de Economia y Empresa, University of Oviedo)
刊号:866C0108
出版年:2014
年卷期:2014, vol.22, no.3
页码:587-609
总页数:23
分类号:TU98
语种:eng
文摘:This paper analyses the environmental measures co-financed by the European Union (EU) Structural Funds in the less-developed regions. Specifically, it studies if these environmental measures are tailored to the specific needs of the different regions and whether they are driven by an ecological modernization approach. The inclusion of environmental goals into the regional policy is also tested by analysing its connection with the main European environmental directives. We find a suitability of the regional programmes to the regional specific environmental factors, a scarce presence of the ecological modernization paradigm behind the programmes implementation and a clear orientation of the regional programmes to meet the EU legislation.