Place-based development and spatial justice

Within EU cohesion policy, a place-based approach is expected to promote strategic shift towards more place-sensitive, cross-sectoral and socially inclusive development. These expectations are underlined in the new Territorial Agenda 2030, which highlights that key territorial overall efforts just Europe. Drawing on findings from Horizon 2020 project RELOCAL – Resituating local development this special issue explores relations between spatial justice. It addresses complex challenges of interventions, such as critical role national policy environment explaining variegated outcomes, enabling agency peripheralised regions, assessing impacts. In editorial, we provide an introductory discussion justice, well brief introductions nine papers. We argue there number distinctive locally nationally anchored mechanisms inhibitors at play, academics, particularly planning professionals policy-makers, need be aware working Hence, interventions valuable contribution EU, but quest for justice they cannot replace redistributive policy.