Towards future territorial governance

The book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. The conclusions summed up in this final chapter are three-proged. First, we discuss the prospects for territorial governance at various administrative levels, macro-regional, national, regional and local, in Europe as a whole. Second, we draw some conclusions about how a territorial governance approach can be employed generally in Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe and in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Finally the chapter ends with some ideas about the future prospects for territorial governance research.