Abstract

DOMINGUES, Alexandre  and  CABRAL, João. Economic development areas in Algarve: the efficacy of the strategies of territorial planning instruments or the maintenance of previous logics. GOT [online]. 2014, n.5, pp.67-91. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2014.5.003.

The article looks into the contents of strategic documents for the Region of the Algarve, the orientations given by the supra-municipal plans and the way these orientations are reflected into the territorial planning instruments in terms of the implementation of economic development areas. After two decades since the Regional Plan (PROT) was issued, the succeeding municipal master plans and the revision of the PROT, the article aims to characterise the contents of the regional strategies and to evaluate the efficacy of the territorial planning instruments expressing these strategies. The analysis suggests that vague and inadequate assertive strategic objectives still persist based on superficial diagnosis. Thus, territorial planning instruments are not based on concerted strategies. Yet, models for the implementation and functioning of economic development areas do exist, resulting from isolated initiatives, which can be seen as success stories to be adopted by public and private entities, in more dynamic or peripheral territories.

Keywords : Economic development areas; territorial planning; industrial spaces; regional development; Algarve.

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