Territorial impact assessment (TIA): A methodological proposal

Abstract

The need to engage European research and institutions in the new field of Territorial Impact Assessment, from both a methodological and a procedural perspective, was stated some years ago by the ESDP-European Spatial Development Perspective (CMSP 1999). The necessity of multidimensional evaluation of the likely impact of policies and programmes on the territory-understood as the dimension on which all the other relevant dimensions (economic, social, environmental and cultural) converge and with which they integrate-emerged as a natural consequence of the importance of spatial aspects in the future development of the Union and of widespread preoccupations about certain emerging spatial trends.