Transcript Jaczek Zaucha `BSR-TeMo`

ESPON Open Seminar 2014
“Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion:
Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”
Workshop 1 – Smart development
Territorial cohesion and blue/smart
development. BSR evidences
TeMo/Jacek Zaucha
TeMo key facts
TeMo: Territorial Monitoring for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)
Objective: To develop a territorial monitoring system for the
BSR based on territorial indicators.
TeMo tried to take sea on board (as a
part of BSR) but only indicators on
eutrophication have been available.
However, coastal regions are among key
regional typologies used by TeMo for
analysing territorial cohesion in the BSR.
(TeMo has researched in depth only
cross-border regions)
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TeMo Presentation Tool
http://bsr.espon.eu/app_territorial_cohesion.htm
TeMo strenght:
conventional indicators
proper territorial typologies
TeMo strenght: conventional indicators &proper territorial typologies
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TeMo monitors many aspects of Blue Growth
•
The seaports and ferry links ->
Baltic Sea as big opportunity
• Key airports in the BSR are in
fact located in coastal regions
• No direct train connection
between Tallinn-Riga and
Vilnius, but East-West
connections still exist linking
the Baltic States ports with
Russia (existing main trade
flows as historic legacy)
• High the number of important
cities located at the sea
But also many peripheral maritime
regions
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What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation
to smart development of the blue economy?
Prosperity and smart
development takes place
mainly in metropolitan
regions of the BSR.
Majority of the BSR coastal
regions are nonmetropolitan. Thus blue
development is limited there
to traditional sectors: e.g.
tourism, fishing,
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What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation
to smart development of the blue economy?
Average annual real change of GDP 2005 - 2010 in the Baltic Sea Region
according to various typologies of NUTS3-regions
Average change, %
Prosperity
and smart
3.5 %
Predominantly urban
regiontakes place
development
3.0 %
Capital city
mainly in metropolitan region
Smaller
2.5 %
regions
of the BSR.
metro region
2.0 %
Predom. rural reg.,
close to a city
Border
Non-border
metropolitan regions
Non-sparse
Sparse
Other region
Second-tier
metro region
Majority of the
coastal
Interm.BSR
reg.,
close to a city
1.5 %
regions are Predominantly
non- rural
region, remote
1.0 %
metropolitan.
Thus blue
development
is limited there
0.5 %
Intermediate region,
to traditionalremote
sectors: e.g.
0.0 %
tourism,
fishing,
Typology
on urbanTypology on
rural regions
Inland
Coast
Developing pretty
fast but not so fast
as inland regions
External border
regions
Sparsely populated
regions
Typology on coastal
regions
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What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation
to smart development of the blue economy?
Prosperity and smart
development takes place
mainly in metropolitan
regions of the BSR.
More attractive…
Majority of the BSR coastal
regions are nonmetropolitan. Thus blue
development is limited there
to traditional sectors: e.g.
tourism, fishing,
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What are main territorial trends or observations in the BSR in relation
to smart development of the blue economy?
For data on R&D the
regions are too large to
extract the impact of the sea
But the pattern is rather
West versus East than
inland versus coastal
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What opportunities and challenges exist in BSR for increasing
competitiveness through smart growth of the blue economy?
Many BSR coastal regions
are in a handicapped
position in terms of
accessibility.
Sea might be a key
opportunity for them.
Perhaps not always for
development but for
maintenance of their
economic base (e.g.
tourism, mariculture, greenblue energy).
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What opportunities and challenges exist in BSR for increasing
competitiveness through smart growth of the blue economy?
Despite accessibility
handicapped and slower
GDP growth the BSR
coastal regions outpaced
other regions in terms of
prosperity level (with
exception to capital and
urban regions).
The question is to what
extent is this due to their
coastal location?
Agglomeration economies ?
Rodrik’s determinants?
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Which additional evidence is needed for policy makers to better tap the
economic blue development potential of the BSR
TeMo can be a perfect tool for observing blue-smart
development provided we can agree on:
• Definition of the coastal region – NUTS 2 are to large
• Need for continuous monitoring of the performance of those
regions
• How to treat the sea (how to attribute production on the sea
– e.g. wind mills to a given territory)? Do we need sea
NUTS?
• Method on measurement of the benefits provided by
ecosystem services.
• Definition of maritime (blue) economy.
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ESPON Open Seminar 2014
“Opportunities and threats for territorial cohesion:
Blue Growth and Urban Poverty”
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