Marine spatial planning is developing rapidly in many regions and countries in response to increases in ocean uses and user conflicts, growing environmental degradation and loss of ecosystem services, and awareness of the shortcomings of single-sector management. Marine spatial planning attempts to reduce spatial use conflicts and environmental stressors by comprehensively planning for multiple...

Planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually, practically in ways arguably not seen before. In this editorial we examine whether have witnessed the withering away of regional planning. Our argument that planning remains integral to future studies, but form it once took. We argue for new approaches futures. More broadly, and Regional Futures issue an intellectual call-...

The present article aims to discuss how the so-called health regions have been organized in Brazil since the respective governing ruling was issued (NOAS - SUS 01/2001). In order to clarify this new context, the author emphasises such concepts as region and geographic scale. The regional division under this ruling is based on the regional planning concept underlying the country's territorial po...