The social and economic cohesion across the European territory represents one of the main tasks of the European Community. This goal goes along with the objective to reach a balance and sustainable growth and economic convergence at the regional and country level, as well as to avoid income and...

A suitable strategy for achieving sustainable development is to foster environmental innovations. Environmental innovations, however, suffer from so-called double externalities, because apart from innovation spillovers they also improve the quality of public environmental goods, which can be...

Die sektorale und räumliche Koordination von Fachpolitiken ist bereits seit Langem Gegenstand disziplinärer und interdisziplinärer Diskussion. Diese hat ihren Ausgangspunkt in der Erkenntnis, dass ausschließlich autonome Fachpolitik bzw. ausschließlich autonomes Handeln politischer Akteure...