Eduardo Medeiros
Biographic Data
| ID | 4805136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eduardo Medeiros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eduardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Medeiros |
| SIGNATURE | MEDEIROS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, ESTBarreiro, Rua Américo da Silva Marinho, Lavradio, Portugal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8877-5606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal
This paper analyses the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy (ECP) project selection governance mechanism in eight EU Member States: Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Czechia, Hungary, Sweden and Finland. It focuses with more detail on the implementation of the 2021–2027 ECP Integrated Territorial Instruments in Portugal. The research proposes a conceptual framework for analysing ECP project selection governance mechanism based on three m…
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal
Environmental sustainability has been a key policy goal of the European Union (EU), particularly under recent EU Cohesion Policy strategic frameworks. This paper contributes to the analysis of the relevance of EU Cohesion Policy-related environmental sustainability investments, by assessing the impacts of the Operational Programme for Sustainability and Use of Resources (POSEUR 2014–2020), in the Portuguese North NUTS II. In detail, the impact sc…
Cross-Border Institutional Trust in Post-Pandemic Times. The Role of EU b-solutions Initiative
Mutual trust is an important element in starting cross-border processes, and institutional trust is vital to forging sound and effective cross-border cooperation. It is widely debated that the recent covidfencing process in Europe chipped away existing long and medium-term cross-border institutional ties, in most European borders, at least for some time. The fundamental point is that the sudden closing of national borders also revealed how import…
Cross-Border Urban Sustainable Planning in USA and EU Border Cities
This article presents a comparison between cross-border urban sustainable planning strategies in two border cities. One is located in the European Union, along the Portuguese-Spanish border area (the Eurocity Elvas/Campo Maior//Badajoz). Another is located in North America, along the USA-Mexico border area (Nogales/Nogales). Supported by a literature review and interviews, the research concluded that cross-border urban sustainable planning is sti…
EU Cohesion Policy towards territorial cohesion
Despite being one of the main European Union (EU) policy goals, expressed in the EU treaty and expected to be fostered by EU Cohesion Policy, territorial cohesion is still an under-researched scientific concept and policy process. Against this background, this special issue provides novel theoretical and practical perspectives on the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy and territorial cohesion, particularly through the analysis of EU Cohesion…
Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative
For more than six decades, the European Union (EU) has promoted, one way or the other, systematic European territorial integration, understood as the process of reducing many kinds of cross-border barriers. This article debates the role of the EU b-solutions initiative in facilitating cross-border commuting in Europe via its contribution to a body of knowledge, which, in its practical application, has the potential to act as a resource to be draw…
Measuring territorial cohesion trends in Europe: A correlation with EU Cohesion Policy
Territorial cohesion is a formal EU policy goal since 2010, when it was placed in the Lisbon Treaty, alongside the long-term EU goals of economic and social cohesion. Understandably, by itself, a policy goal is irrelevant if it cannot be assessed. In this light, this article discusses potential methodological approaches to measure territorial cohesion trends in a given territory, their advantages and limitations, based on existing literature. It …
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion
Understood in some conceptual analysis as a pillar of territorial cohesion and due to its critical role in promoting territorial integration, territorial cooperation is often presented as one of the major positive achievements of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. In this context, this article proposes a conceptual framework to assess the contribution of the European Territorial Cooperation process, including the beyond-funding support from the…
Urban participatory planning approaches in capital cities: The Lisbon case
This paper assesses participatory urban planning in Lisbon, based on the ongoing urban development plan. The results of the qualitative analysis on the urban governance and participatory process covering a two-year period (2010–2012), in which the urban development plan was discussed, suggest a highly participatory urban planning process, involving not only individual citizens but also schools, NGOs, business, academia, surrounding municipalities…
Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: The case of Europe
The beginning of 2020 saw the global spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a systematic closure of national borders across the world, which we refer to as the ‘covidfencing’ panorama. As expected, in Europe, where close to two million commuters cross national borders on a daily basis to work, this new reality has provoked significant setbacks to their lives. Based on evidence already available from several sources, this article presents …
Administrative and organizational capacities of civil society in EU Cohesion Policy
Administrative capacities are among the crucial factors influencing success in European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy absorption. The current research concentrates on the public sector, while administrative capacities in other stakeholders are omitted. Our research focuses on whether local stakeholders from civil society have sufficient capacities to contribute effectively and efficiently to EU Cohesion Policy implementation. We performed our resear…
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration
Despite the positive contributions of several European Union (EU) policies to reduce border barriers, the EU Cross-Border Review (CBR) initiative reaffirmed their relevance and persistence. Since 2018, the EU has supported the b-solutions initiative, specifically focused on tackling legal and administrative border obstacles, aiming to highlight replicable solutions which can contribute to reducing these obstacles. This article critically assesses…
The territorial dimension of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This paper intends to fill a gap in available literature by debating the role of human geography in the elaboration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. More particularly, it elaborates on the relevance of spatial planning and territorial cohesion processes to implement sustainable development
Principles for delimiting transnational territories for policy implementation
The concept of transnational territories for policy implementation (TTPI) is increasingly presented within the European Union (EU) as offering prospects for tackling common development issues affecting transnational spaces. Following on from the experiences of Interreg-B and the EU macro-regional strategies (MRS), this paper explores the advantages for a transnational territorial development approach and details concrete criteria to delimit those…
Territorial Cohesion Cities: A policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion
This paper discusses the role of medium towns as crucial anchors in achieving the policy goal of Territorial Cohesion. It highlights the need to counterbalance market trends to favour the continuous channelling of investment and people into larger metropolitan areas by way of proactive measures focused on attracting investment into medium towns, and as an alternative to dispersing public and private investment in lagging territories. Iberian and …
Cross-border cooperation in inner Scandinavia: A territorial impact assessment
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: A territorial impact assessment
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: a territorial impact assessment. Regional Studies. This article examines the territorial impacts of European Union Cohesion Policy in Spain in the first four programming phases (1989–2013). It makes use of a multidimensional and multi-vector territorial impact assessment (TIA) procedure, which goes beyond the common socio-economic and environmental policy evaluation procedures by including elements relate…
Future research on European Union Cohesion Policy: A Master Class during the Open Days 2014
In this paper we discuss EU Cohesion Policy, its development over time and prospects for future research. Since the introduction of the EU Cohesion Policy in 1988, its focus has transformed from overcoming regional disparities by developing disadvantaged regions towards economic investment. When Cohesion Policy was subordinated to the Lisbon agenda and subsequently to the Europe 2020 strategy, competitiveness, employment and growth became its pri…
Territorial Impact Assessment and Cross-Border Cooperation
Impact Assessment procedures have gained increasing attention from the European Commission (EC), as fundamental tools in providing evidence of the potential impacts of European Union (EU) financed projects/programmes/policies. Yet, only recently, the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of EU directives and Policies have gained a broader support from the EC, as a result of pivotal contributions from several ESPON projects in producing adequate TIA…
Is there a new ‘trust’ in inner scandinavia? evidence from cross‐border planning and governance
Inner Scandinavia is one of the Swedish‐Norwegian INTERREG‐A three sub‐programmes, and has been working in operationalizing cross‐border projects in the border area since 1994. To date, several cross‐border strategies have been implemented, one for each programming period of the INTERREG‐A programme. This article investigates whether these strategies can be regarded as a type of cross‐border planning mechanism in promoting territorial development…
Euro–Meso–Macro: The New Regions in Iberian and European Space
Medeiros E. Euro–Meso–Macro: the new regions in Iberian and European space, Regional Studies. The European integration process, which has been supported by European Cohesion Policy since the end of the 1980s, is witnessing the establishment of an increasingly large number of the so-called Euroregions and similar structures, mainly as a result of experiments and projects carried out under the INTERREG community initiative, in all its strands (cros…
Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias1
Trocas multiculturais em contextos coloniais moçambicanos, envolvendo referências identitárias africanas, europeias e asiáticas, constituem o foco analítico do presente texto. A observação de processos de miscigenação (biológica e sobretudo cultural) registados nos séculos XIX e XX, em Moçambique colonial e também em alguns espaços da diáspora deste país, sugerem que a ideologia colonial de «separatismos culturais» e de gestão manipulativa das di…
Territorial Impact Assessment and Cross-Border Cooperation
Impact Assessment procedures have gained increasing attention from the European Commission (EC), as fundamental tools in providing evidence of the potential impacts of European Union (EU) financed projects/programmes/policies. Yet, only recently, the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of EU directives and Policies have gained a broader support from the EC, as a result of pivotal contributions from several ESPON projects in producing adequate TIA…
Territorial Cohesion Cities: A policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion
This paper discusses the role of medium towns as crucial anchors in achieving the policy goal of Territorial Cohesion. It highlights the need to counterbalance market trends to favour the continuous channelling of investment and people into larger metropolitan areas by way of proactive measures focused on attracting investment into medium towns, and as an alternative to dispersing public and private investment in lagging territories. Iberian and …
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: A territorial impact assessment
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: a territorial impact assessment. Regional Studies. This article examines the territorial impacts of European Union Cohesion Policy in Spain in the first four programming phases (1989–2013). It makes use of a multidimensional and multi-vector territorial impact assessment (TIA) procedure, which goes beyond the common socio-economic and environmental policy evaluation procedures by including elements relate…
Euro–Meso–Macro: The New Regions in Iberian and European Space
Medeiros E. Euro–Meso–Macro: the new regions in Iberian and European space, Regional Studies. The European integration process, which has been supported by European Cohesion Policy since the end of the 1980s, is witnessing the establishment of an increasingly large number of the so-called Euroregions and similar structures, mainly as a result of experiments and projects carried out under the INTERREG community initiative, in all its strands (cros…
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion
Understood in some conceptual analysis as a pillar of territorial cohesion and due to its critical role in promoting territorial integration, territorial cooperation is often presented as one of the major positive achievements of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. In this context, this article proposes a conceptual framework to assess the contribution of the European Territorial Cooperation process, including the beyond-funding support from the…
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration
Despite the positive contributions of several European Union (EU) policies to reduce border barriers, the EU Cross-Border Review (CBR) initiative reaffirmed their relevance and persistence. Since 2018, the EU has supported the b-solutions initiative, specifically focused on tackling legal and administrative border obstacles, aiming to highlight replicable solutions which can contribute to reducing these obstacles. This article critically assesses…
Cross-Border Institutional Trust in Post-Pandemic Times. The Role of EU b-solutions Initiative
Mutual trust is an important element in starting cross-border processes, and institutional trust is vital to forging sound and effective cross-border cooperation. It is widely debated that the recent covidfencing process in Europe chipped away existing long and medium-term cross-border institutional ties, in most European borders, at least for some time. The fundamental point is that the sudden closing of national borders also revealed how import…
Is there a new ‘trust’ in inner scandinavia? evidence from cross‐border planning and governance
Inner Scandinavia is one of the Swedish‐Norwegian INTERREG‐A three sub‐programmes, and has been working in operationalizing cross‐border projects in the border area since 1994. To date, several cross‐border strategies have been implemented, one for each programming period of the INTERREG‐A programme. This article investigates whether these strategies can be regarded as a type of cross‐border planning mechanism in promoting territorial development…
The territorial dimension of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This paper intends to fill a gap in available literature by debating the role of human geography in the elaboration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. More particularly, it elaborates on the relevance of spatial planning and territorial cohesion processes to implement sustainable development
Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias1
Trocas multiculturais em contextos coloniais moçambicanos, envolvendo referências identitárias africanas, europeias e asiáticas, constituem o foco analítico do presente texto. A observação de processos de miscigenação (biológica e sobretudo cultural) registados nos séculos XIX e XX, em Moçambique colonial e também em alguns espaços da diáspora deste país, sugerem que a ideologia colonial de «separatismos culturais» e de gestão manipulativa das di…
Administrative and organizational capacities of civil society in EU Cohesion Policy
Administrative capacities are among the crucial factors influencing success in European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy absorption. The current research concentrates on the public sector, while administrative capacities in other stakeholders are omitted. Our research focuses on whether local stakeholders from civil society have sufficient capacities to contribute effectively and efficiently to EU Cohesion Policy implementation. We performed our resear…
Principles for delimiting transnational territories for policy implementation
The concept of transnational territories for policy implementation (TTPI) is increasingly presented within the European Union (EU) as offering prospects for tackling common development issues affecting transnational spaces. Following on from the experiences of Interreg-B and the EU macro-regional strategies (MRS), this paper explores the advantages for a transnational territorial development approach and details concrete criteria to delimit those…
Future research on European Union Cohesion Policy: A Master Class during the Open Days 2014
In this paper we discuss EU Cohesion Policy, its development over time and prospects for future research. Since the introduction of the EU Cohesion Policy in 1988, its focus has transformed from overcoming regional disparities by developing disadvantaged regions towards economic investment. When Cohesion Policy was subordinated to the Lisbon agenda and subsequently to the Europe 2020 strategy, competitiveness, employment and growth became its pri…
Os Sino-moçambicanos da Beira. Mestiçagens Várias1
Trocas multiculturais em contextos coloniais moçambicanos, envolvendo referências identitárias africanas, europeias e asiáticas, constituem o foco analítico do presente texto. A observação de processos de miscigenação (biológica e sobretudo cultural) registados nos séculos XIX e XX, em Moçambique colonial e também em alguns espaços da diáspora deste país, sugerem que a ideologia colonial de «separatismos culturais» e de gestão manipulativa das di…
Euro–Meso–Macro: The New Regions in Iberian and European Space
Medeiros E. Euro–Meso–Macro: the new regions in Iberian and European space, Regional Studies. The European integration process, which has been supported by European Cohesion Policy since the end of the 1980s, is witnessing the establishment of an increasingly large number of the so-called Euroregions and similar structures, mainly as a result of experiments and projects carried out under the INTERREG community initiative, in all its strands (cros…
Is there a new ‘trust’ in inner scandinavia? evidence from cross‐border planning and governance
Inner Scandinavia is one of the Swedish‐Norwegian INTERREG‐A three sub‐programmes, and has been working in operationalizing cross‐border projects in the border area since 1994. To date, several cross‐border strategies have been implemented, one for each programming period of the INTERREG‐A programme. This article investigates whether these strategies can be regarded as a type of cross‐border planning mechanism in promoting territorial development…
Future research on European Union Cohesion Policy: A Master Class during the Open Days 2014
In this paper we discuss EU Cohesion Policy, its development over time and prospects for future research. Since the introduction of the EU Cohesion Policy in 1988, its focus has transformed from overcoming regional disparities by developing disadvantaged regions towards economic investment. When Cohesion Policy was subordinated to the Lisbon agenda and subsequently to the Europe 2020 strategy, competitiveness, employment and growth became its pri…
Territorial Impact Assessment and Cross-Border Cooperation
Impact Assessment procedures have gained increasing attention from the European Commission (EC), as fundamental tools in providing evidence of the potential impacts of European Union (EU) financed projects/programmes/policies. Yet, only recently, the Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA) of EU directives and Policies have gained a broader support from the EC, as a result of pivotal contributions from several ESPON projects in producing adequate TIA…
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: A territorial impact assessment
European Union Cohesion Policy and Spain: a territorial impact assessment. Regional Studies. This article examines the territorial impacts of European Union Cohesion Policy in Spain in the first four programming phases (1989–2013). It makes use of a multidimensional and multi-vector territorial impact assessment (TIA) procedure, which goes beyond the common socio-economic and environmental policy evaluation procedures by including elements relate…
Cross-border cooperation in inner Scandinavia: A territorial impact assessment
Territorial Cohesion Cities: A policy recipe for achieving Territorial Cohesion
This paper discusses the role of medium towns as crucial anchors in achieving the policy goal of Territorial Cohesion. It highlights the need to counterbalance market trends to favour the continuous channelling of investment and people into larger metropolitan areas by way of proactive measures focused on attracting investment into medium towns, and as an alternative to dispersing public and private investment in lagging territories. Iberian and …
Principles for delimiting transnational territories for policy implementation
The concept of transnational territories for policy implementation (TTPI) is increasingly presented within the European Union (EU) as offering prospects for tackling common development issues affecting transnational spaces. Following on from the experiences of Interreg-B and the EU macro-regional strategies (MRS), this paper explores the advantages for a transnational territorial development approach and details concrete criteria to delimit those…
Covidfencing effects on cross-border deterritorialism: The case of Europe
The beginning of 2020 saw the global spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a systematic closure of national borders across the world, which we refer to as the ‘covidfencing’ panorama. As expected, in Europe, where close to two million commuters cross national borders on a daily basis to work, this new reality has provoked significant setbacks to their lives. Based on evidence already available from several sources, this article presents …
Administrative and organizational capacities of civil society in EU Cohesion Policy
Administrative capacities are among the crucial factors influencing success in European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy absorption. The current research concentrates on the public sector, while administrative capacities in other stakeholders are omitted. Our research focuses on whether local stakeholders from civil society have sufficient capacities to contribute effectively and efficiently to EU Cohesion Policy implementation. We performed our resear…
Will reducing border barriers via the EU’s b-solutions lead towards greater European territorial integration
Despite the positive contributions of several European Union (EU) policies to reduce border barriers, the EU Cross-Border Review (CBR) initiative reaffirmed their relevance and persistence. Since 2018, the EU has supported the b-solutions initiative, specifically focused on tackling legal and administrative border obstacles, aiming to highlight replicable solutions which can contribute to reducing these obstacles. This article critically assesses…
The territorial dimension of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
This paper intends to fill a gap in available literature by debating the role of human geography in the elaboration of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. More particularly, it elaborates on the relevance of spatial planning and territorial cohesion processes to implement sustainable development
Urban participatory planning approaches in capital cities: The Lisbon case
This paper assesses participatory urban planning in Lisbon, based on the ongoing urban development plan. The results of the qualitative analysis on the urban governance and participatory process covering a two-year period (2010–2012), in which the urban development plan was discussed, suggest a highly participatory urban planning process, involving not only individual citizens but also schools, NGOs, business, academia, surrounding municipalities…
Reducing border barriers for cross-border commuters in Europe via the EU b-solutions initiative
For more than six decades, the European Union (EU) has promoted, one way or the other, systematic European territorial integration, understood as the process of reducing many kinds of cross-border barriers. This article debates the role of the EU b-solutions initiative in facilitating cross-border commuting in Europe via its contribution to a body of knowledge, which, in its practical application, has the potential to act as a resource to be draw…
Measuring territorial cohesion trends in Europe: A correlation with EU Cohesion Policy
Territorial cohesion is a formal EU policy goal since 2010, when it was placed in the Lisbon Treaty, alongside the long-term EU goals of economic and social cohesion. Understandably, by itself, a policy goal is irrelevant if it cannot be assessed. In this light, this article discusses potential methodological approaches to measure territorial cohesion trends in a given territory, their advantages and limitations, based on existing literature. It …
European territorial cooperation towards territorial cohesion
Understood in some conceptual analysis as a pillar of territorial cohesion and due to its critical role in promoting territorial integration, territorial cooperation is often presented as one of the major positive achievements of European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy. In this context, this article proposes a conceptual framework to assess the contribution of the European Territorial Cooperation process, including the beyond-funding support from the…
Assessing impacts of public policies towards environmental sustainability in an EU region: North of Portugal
Environmental sustainability has been a key policy goal of the European Union (EU), particularly under recent EU Cohesion Policy strategic frameworks. This paper contributes to the analysis of the relevance of EU Cohesion Policy-related environmental sustainability investments, by assessing the impacts of the Operational Programme for Sustainability and Use of Resources (POSEUR 2014–2020), in the Portuguese North NUTS II. In detail, the impact sc…
Cross-Border Institutional Trust in Post-Pandemic Times. The Role of EU b-solutions Initiative
Mutual trust is an important element in starting cross-border processes, and institutional trust is vital to forging sound and effective cross-border cooperation. It is widely debated that the recent covidfencing process in Europe chipped away existing long and medium-term cross-border institutional ties, in most European borders, at least for some time. The fundamental point is that the sudden closing of national borders also revealed how import…
Cross-Border Urban Sustainable Planning in USA and EU Border Cities
This article presents a comparison between cross-border urban sustainable planning strategies in two border cities. One is located in the European Union, along the Portuguese-Spanish border area (the Eurocity Elvas/Campo Maior//Badajoz). Another is located in North America, along the USA-Mexico border area (Nogales/Nogales). Supported by a literature review and interviews, the research concluded that cross-border urban sustainable planning is sti…
EU Cohesion Policy towards territorial cohesion
Despite being one of the main European Union (EU) policy goals, expressed in the EU treaty and expected to be fostered by EU Cohesion Policy, territorial cohesion is still an under-researched scientific concept and policy process. Against this background, this special issue provides novel theoretical and practical perspectives on the relationship between EU Cohesion Policy and territorial cohesion, particularly through the analysis of EU Cohesion…
EU Cohesion Policy and project appraisal
This paper analyses the European Union (EU) Cohesion Policy (ECP) project selection governance mechanism in eight EU Member States: Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Czechia, Hungary, Sweden and Finland. It focuses with more detail on the implementation of the 2021–2027 ECP Integrated Territorial Instruments in Portugal. The research proposes a conceptual framework for analysing ECP project selection governance mechanism based on three m…
Political science (21 works) · Geography (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Regional science (15 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (14 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · European union (12 works) · Local Governance and Planning (11 works) · Regional Development and Policy (9 works)