The programme covers the following issues :
1) The process and methods for evaluating regional policies in relation to the objectives of sustainable development.
2) The mechanisms linking the spatial, sectoral and time-dependent factors of public policies
3) Governance and sustainable development: limits and opportunities
4) Ecological inequalities: a way of assessing the regional impact of public actions.

PUCA's exploratory programme of prospective research in Europe

Four research subjects selected on the issue of sustainable development