Contents: Introduction; Themes and Content: Regional planning and development in Europe: an introduction Peter Roberts, Dave Shaw and Jim Walsh. The Operations of the Structural Funds and Regional Restructuring: Approaches and Experiences: The regional impact of the community’s agricultural policy: the case of Greece, Dimitri Economou; The role of local development policies, Ivan Turok Regional convergence in Italy and Spain: a comparative perspective, Marinella Terrasi; Enhancing the environmental component of structural fund regional programmes: the case of the East of Scotland, Tony Jackson and Peter Roberts; Dynamic regional development in the EU periphery: Ireland in the 1990s, James Walsh. Spatial Planning, Environmental Management and Regional Development: Strategic European spatial planning - power, knowledge and rationality in policy evaluation, Gordon Dabinett and Tim Richardson; The development planning process in six English regions, Mark Baker; Co-regional planning in Europe: an idea put into practice, Wilhelm Benfer; The local not the global? regulating local environmental policy making regimes, David Gibbs and Andrew Jonas; Towards a multisectorial process for environmental protection and sustainable development in rural Europe, Heinrich Seul and Christine Wellensiek. Evaluations of Past Experience and a View Forward: Towards coherence in European spatial planning?, Dave Shaw and Vince Nadin; Non grant instruments and the structural funds: the new alchemy?, Peter Ramsden; European Union regional programmes - lessons from practice and a review of future options, Peter Roberts.
