The ESPON TIA Web Application
Assessing potential territorial impacts of EU initiatives
Bernd Schuh
Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning (ÖIR)
Rome, 5th December 2014
ESPON ARTS  ESPON TIA
The Challenge
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EU policy proposals influence development of regions
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with often territorial effects
The project ESPON ARTS
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developed a simplified, evidence-based procedure of
an ex ante Territorial Impact Assessment (TIA)
The TIA Quick Check approach
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a “quick and dirty” TIA-check
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combining expert knowledge gathered in a workshop
with an Excel tool and standardised indicators
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showing results in maps (NUTS 3 level)
Policies
Regions
Exposure
Territorial sensitivity
Territorial impact
Independant
of policy proposal
Different for
each policy proposal
The vulnerability concept
TIA Quick Check in 9 Steps
(1) How to get started
(2) The conceptual model
(3) Which types of regions are affected
(branching & regional exposure)?
(4) What is the intensity of exposure on different fields?
(5) What is the territorial impact in European regions?
(6) Which regions will be hit in which fields?
(7) Do the results make sense?
(8) What are the policy implications?
(9) How to communicate the results?
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(2) Conceptual model: Brainstorming
Creating a systemic picture linking
the policy proposal with territorial effects
(3) Which types of regions are affected ?
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(4) What is the intensity of exposure in different fields?
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(5) What is the territorial impact on regions?
Distribution of the impact in European regions
(6) Which regions will be hit in which fields?
TIA Quick Check in 9 Steps
(1) How to get started
(2) The conceptual model
(3) Which types of regions are affected
(branching & regional exposure)?
(4) What is the intensity of exposure on different fields?
(5) What is the territorial impact in European regions?
(6) Which regions will be hit in which fields?
(7) Do the results make sense?
(8) What are the policy implications?
(9) How to communicate the results?
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The ESPON TIA Web Application
Assessing potential territorial impacts of EU initiatives
Bernd Schuh
Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning (ÖIR)
Rome, 5th December 2014