Assessing regional capabilities-oriented approaches for European just and sustainable transitions
通过分析欧洲凝聚力、领土和环境政策框架，评估了以公正和能力为导向的发展路径，发现当前策略侧重竞争力和分配，但关系性和空间公正视角正在兴起，建议转向学习导向目标以促进区域公正与可持续。
Given the uneven distribution of regional benefits and losses across Europe, the article assesses the potential of stronger justice and capabilities-oriented approaches to development. Critically reflecting on dominant spatial narratives, the research builds on a qualitative content analysis of selected past and present policy frameworks for European cohesion, territorial and environmental action. Applying a framing analysis approach, the analysis demonstrates that the strategies frame sustainable territorial development strongly along competitiveness-targeting, distributive and coordination-oriented categories. However, a relational, spatial justice and capacity-building focus is on the rise. Concluding that shifting objectives from performance towards more learning-oriented goals bears the potential to serve stronger spatially just and sustainable regional dynamics, it argues for change of focus towards regional processes.