Abstract The challenges to achieve balanced territorial development are often related to the predominance of spatial concentration processes, lack of awareness of local potential and critical mass in remote regions. Despite this large-scale picture, increasingly development problems are observed also in more “centrally-located” regions of Europe necessitating a much finer grained level of spatial analysis. The resulting perception of Inner Peripheries in recent years pose several critical questions for the evaluation and planning of the European regional development policy and practice. This is particularly due to their nature, i.e. peripherality and marginality, which might instigate local population feelings of being treated ‘unfair’ and, at the same time, to the relatively poor attention given by EU policy and scientific frameworks to these remote territories. Recent studies have highlighted the need for reflecting local distinctive challenges and pathways in different types of rural regions. Through adopting an interdisciplinary approach with robust and finer level analyses and multi-stakeholder processes, the Academic studies and policy strategies should pool their strengths towards understanding and devising actions for mitigation of the underlying problems, making use of European and National Funds also for affected Inner Peripheries.

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位置很重要。科学和政策领域是否面临欧盟内部边缘的挑战？

摘要 实现地域均衡发展的挑战往往与空间集中过程占主导地位、缺乏对地方潜力和偏远地区临界质量的认识有关。尽管有这种大尺度的图片，但在欧洲更“中心化”的地区也观察到越来越多的发展问题，需要更细粒度的空间分析。近年来，由此产生的对内陆地区的看法对欧洲区域发展政策和实践的评估和规划提出了几个关键问题。这尤其是由于它们的性质，即边缘性和边缘性，这可能会激起当地居民被“不公平”对待的感觉，同时，欧盟政策和科学框架对这些偏远地区的关注相对较少。最近的研究强调需要在不同类型的农村地区反映当地独特的挑战和途径。通过采用具有稳健和精细水平分析和多方利益相关者流程的跨学科方法，学术研究和政策战略应集中力量理解和制定缓解潜在问题的行动，利用欧洲和国家基金也为受影响的内陆地区提供帮助。外围。