ESPON Open Seminar 2014

“Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion: Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”

Workshop 1 – Smart development

Territorial cohesion and blue/smart development. BSR evidences

TeMo/Jacek Zaucha

TeMo: Territorial Monitoring for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)

Objective: To develop a territorial monitoring system for the BSR based on territorial indicators.

TeMo key facts

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TeMo tried to take sea on board (as a part of BSR) but only indicators on eutrophication have been available.

However, coastal regions are among key regional typologies used by TeMo for analysing territorial cohesion in the BSR. (TeMo has researched in depth only cross-border regions)

TeMo Presentation Tool http://bsr.espon.eu/app_territorial_cohesion.htm

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TeMo strenght:

conventional indicators

proper territorial typologies

TeMo strenght: conventional indicators &proper territorial typologies

• The seaports and ferry links -> Baltic Sea as big opportunity

• Key airports in the BSR are in fact located in coastal regions

• No direct train connection between Tallinn-Riga and Vilnius, but East-West connections still exist linking the Baltic States ports with Russia (existing main trade flows as historic legacy)

• High the number of important cities located at the sea

But also many peripheral maritime regions

 

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TeMo monitors many aspects of Blue Growth

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What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation to smart development of the blue economy?

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Prosperity and smart development takes place mainly in metropolitan regions of the BSR.

Majority of the BSR coastal regions are non-metropolitan. Thus blue development is limited there to traditional sectors: e.g. tourism, fishing,

What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation to smart development of the blue economy?

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Prosperity and smart development takes place mainly in metropolitan regions of the BSR.

Majority of the BSR coastal regions are non-metropolitan. Thus blue development is limited there to traditional sectors: e.g. tourism, fishing,

Average annual real change of GDP 2005 - 2010 in the Baltic Sea Region according to various typologies of NUTS3-regions

Non-border

Border

Non-sparse

Sparse

Predominantly urban region

Interm. reg.,close to a city

Intermediate region, remote

Predom. rural reg.,close to a city

Predominantly rural region, remote

Capital cityregion

Second-tiermetro region

Smallermetro region

Other regionCoast

Inland

0.0 %

0.5 %

1.0 %

1.5 %

2.0 %

2.5 %

3.0 %

3.5 %

Typology on urban-rural regions

Typology onmetropolitan regions

External borderregions

Sparsely populatedregions

Typology on coastalregions

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hange, %

Developing pretty fast but not so fast as inland regions

What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation to smart development of the blue economy?

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Prosperity and smart development takes place mainly in metropolitan regions of the BSR.

Majority of the BSR coastal regions are non-metropolitan. Thus blue development is limited there to traditional sectors: e.g. tourism, fishing,

More attractive…

What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation to smart development of the blue economy?

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For data on R&D the regions are too large to extract the impact of the sea

But the pattern is rather West versus East than inland versus coastal

Many BSR coastal regions are in a handicapped position in terms of accessibility.

Sea might be a key opportunity for them.

Perhaps not always for development but for maintenance of their economic base (e.g. tourism, mariculture, green-blue energy).

What opportunities and challenges exist in BSR for increasing competitiveness through smart growth of the blue economy?

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Despite accessibility handicapped and slower GDP growth the BSR coastal regions outpaced other regions in terms of prosperity level (with exception to capital and urban regions).

The question is to what extent is this due to their coastal location? Agglomeration economies ? Rodrik’s determinants?

What opportunities and challenges exist in BSR for increasing competitiveness through smart growth of the blue economy?

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TeMo can be a perfect tool for observing blue-smart development provided we can agree on:•Definition of the coastal region – NUTS 2 are to large•Need for continuous monitoring of the performance of those regions•How to treat the sea (how to attribute production on the sea – e.g. wind mills to a given territory)? Do we need sea NUTS?•Method on measurement of the benefits provided by ecosystem services.•Definition of maritime (blue) economy.

Which additional evidence is needed for policy makers to better tap the economic blue development potential of the BSR

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Thank you for your attention

ESPON Open Seminar 2014

“Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion:

Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”