Abstract

DASI, Joaquín Farinós. Evaluation of Policies and Accountability, Requirements for an Appropriate Territorial Governability from a New Planning by Combining Politics and Geography. Perspectiva Geográfica [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.2, pp.331-356.  Epub June 04, 2024. ISSN 0123-3769.

Right governability constitutes itself a key factor for a just, more democratic and dignified development. Key issues to achieve it are re-interpretation of government actions by including new more democratic and collaborative governance practices, the incorporation of territory in the political agenda, the recovery of living space and development of the subsidiarity principle. Many of these issues are part of a geographical 'acquis' or background, and they represent a potential as well as an attractive professional field of application for geographers. This paper analyzes government, governance and governability relationships, and builds bridges between geography and politics. That facilitates a new and more useful approach to planning and management of available territorial potential. Spatial planning is one of the signs of good governance practices. It is argued that the symbolic dimension of governance (understood as a process) is more decisive than material (as a structure or pre-condition) in order to achieve right governability leading to cohesion and welfare ('buen vivir').

Keywords : territorial cohesion; territorial impact assessment; governability; democratic governance; comprehensive strategic spatial planning.

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