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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.
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