STeMA approach: towards a common and cohesive European policy

Looking at the international debate, development and management of the European territory can not leave out of two considerations: the particularity of local system; the global dimension of sustainability. It puts on a question about the planning standard procedures and the rules definition (territorial governance) to make operative and possible the plans like control, planning, management and government tools. It is with the planning that the Public Institutions define the own endogenous development model to offer competitive goods, keeping the own cultural, natural socioeconomic identity. The planning tool is to make a simplified geo-economics and political model for the territorial management and compatible with the local identity. The plan improves an experimental value to define the new planning generation (called IV generation by Prezioso): the sustainable planning. So, it needs to fix what are aspects and indicators to whom we can not renounced to measure the territorial sustainable cohesion, further the utility, rarity, pleasure of the territory as economic good. To make possible to catch up this complex aim, it’s necessary the territorial plan takes on some advanced planning inputs: cohesion, integration, subsidiarity, sustainability, equity and equipontentiality, using some methods and instruments: • a multisubject end equilibrate approach • the territorial georeference (GIS) and a Strategic Assessment (ESA) • a trans-scale approach (different geographical scales and subsidiarity) • a systemic scientific approach • the choice between a lot of appropriate instruments (voluntary, cohercitive, direct, indirect, qualitative, quantitative instruments) to best apply the current laws and procedures to involve in the sustainable measure of development the territorial stakeholders (governance). Inserting the topic of integration (both vertical and horizontal concentration of proximity) in a systemic and complex vision, so-called Sustainable Territorial Management Approach (STeMA by Prezioso 2003), it inquires on the territorial assumption of all the stages that allow the sustainable qualification of the spaces, coordinating them towards an only aim by institutional governance and the use of appropriates instruments that regulate the behaviours of the private and public actors.