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The concept of territorial cohesion (TC) has in recent years attracted particular interest among policy-makers in the EU. One of the principal reasons for the increased attention is that Article 3 of the Treaty of Lisbon acknowledges TC as an additional horizontal goal for the European Union, putting it on a par with more traditional goals of, for example, economic or social cohesion.
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Hanell, T. (2015). Measuring Territorial Cohesion: A Macro-Regional Approach. In: Lang, T., Henn, S., Sgibnev, W., Ehrlich, K. (eds) Understanding Geographies of Polarization and Peripheralization. New Geographies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137415080_13
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