Territories and localities are increasingly considered as key actors in social, cultural and economic processes, both by public administrations and social sciences.

The thematic are of IRES ER follows the theoretical debate and analyzses the consequences of this new attention for local features form.

As territories are not stable but they are constantly changing, we consider two perspectives as interrelated and strictly linked to the other thematic areas.

Activities:
  • Territories and policies: follow public documents, in particular those related to spatial planning, focussing on their implications for social conditions, especially of poorer and weaker communities;
  • Working places and work in places: studies the development of specific local contexts, focussing on working conditions, planning capacities of public and private actors and on the relations between those localities and the national and European level.

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