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Considering Demographic Change in Planning and Implementation Processes

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In most of the Alpine states and regions demographic change is already part of the political agenda and therefore mostly a concern of spatial planning and regional development. Because of a differing understanding and different legislative frameworks of spatial planning and regional development it is not possible to provide one generalized adaptation strategy, which could be applied to all regions of the Alpine Space. Furthermore it could be shown that regions within the same state but from different territorial types imply individual strategies as well. Such strategies can be based on the results of regional SWOT analysis using the same methodological approach based on the concept of sustainable development. Thereby it is most likely that to each territorial type certain opportunities and threats have a strategic dimension. In addition to concrete strategies an improvement of the consideration of demographic change in the policy making process is an important field of intervention. The participation of local and regional stakeholders to find suitable adaptation strategies should get a standard in future spatial planning policy. As demographic change is a cross-sectorial task with a long lasting impact and “memory” in regional development its relevance to future EU cohesion policy is obvious. In the Alpine Space this was already considered in five of six strategic objectives of its 2013 published development strategy.

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  1. Faculty of Tourism, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Bausch

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  1. Faculty of Tourism, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

    Thomas Bausch

  2. Social Geography Working Group, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Madeleine Koch

  3. Institute for Emergency Medicine and Medicine Management, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

    Alexander Veser

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Bausch, T. (2014). Considering Demographic Change in Planning and Implementation Processes. In: Bausch, T., Koch, M., Veser, A. (eds) Coping with Demographic Change in the Alpine Regions. European Studies of Population, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54681-5_14

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