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The objective of the study is that of a planning document analysis of social and health-care policies developed by Italian regional governments during the period from 2007-2010, in order to identify a context analysis, objectives, actions relating to children and to verify the presence of an orientation to child's rights.The document analysis concerning regional programmes for children was conducted employing a programme theory approach. This approach is used in order to compare programmes that, while very different in breadth and general scope, are nevertheless intervention plans for children, with the purpose of identifying the presence of common models and classifying any resulting differences.

Spatial planning in Italy has experienced significant processes of inno- vation in the last 15 years, due to the growing devolution of powers from the national level both in legislative and operational terms. The paper aims to reconstruct the evolution of regional planning in Sicily, a region of the Italian Mezzogiorno which has experienced significant autonomy in the field of urban and regional policy. Through a critical review of the planning experiences carried out by various sectors of the regional administration, the paper discusses some critical question in the relationship between urban planning and sectoral planning and the role of physical planning in address- ing the regional development. In a context in which it is still prevailing a normative and regulatory ap- proach to planning, and without the more strategic and structural tools ex- perienced in other regions, the role of addressing regional development may be described as a puzzle of sectoral and unconnected strategies and policies. The paper argues that the lack of a structural and spatially in- formed vision of the regional territory is one of the reason (but not the on- ly) for the enduring weakness of regional development.

For decades the Italian system of planning has been strongly characterized by a regulatory approach and the question of cities' development had been taken into account within general land use plans. In the 1990s this approach has been considered a strong constraint on the regeneration of cities and the revitalization of their economic potential. Therefore, in the last decade the improvement of flexibility and participation within planning processes were considered primary objectives both at regional and local levels. In addition to spatial regulatory plans, large and medium sized cities became increasingly interested in developing urban strategic plans following the model of some European "success stories" of urban regeneration (such as Barcelona, Lyon, Glasgow). In a first phase, these planning experiments were prevalently carried out by the cities of the Northern regions (such us Torino, Firenze, Venezia, Trento) and supported by strong voluntary public-private partnerships. In a second phase, after a financial programme by the Ministry of Economy, more then 150 cities in the Southern regions started strategic planning processes. These latest strategic plans (at present under observation both from policy makers and urban-regional scientists) should be evaluated in a very different way in comparison with the strategic plans carried out in Northern Italy. That's for two main reasons: • First, because the majority of Southern cities still lag behind from an economic point of view, in addiction to very problematic governance environments and fragmented local societies; • Secondly, as a consequence of the financial support provided to municipalities, because the national and the regional authorities require Southern cities to improve, through strategic planning, their capacity to implement effective regeneration programmes and to increase their access to the EU structural funds. Starting from these distinctive issues, this paper aims to critically discuss the spreading of strategic planning in Southern Italian regions, trying to analyse the ongoing process of innovation as regards the objectives undertaken at national level.

Spatial planning at the regional level is a particularly good example of 'centralization versus decentralization' in a federal system. In one respect the region is dependent on the central level, as far as its legal bases, organizational forms, and planning tasks are concerned; but the cities and counties should be allowed to specify the functions they perform in their own region. This is the crux of the conflict in finding an effective balance between centralization and decentralization. Solutions to date in the FRG have favored a progressive centralization. Because of the increasing economic and ecological problems with which the regions are faced, this centralist solution is no longer tenable and decentralizing reforms are now required and under discussion. These concern the institutional organization and functions of the regions, a mobilization of the capacities available in the respective regions for solving their problems, plus a gradual shift to new region-specific planning. Thus, changes are occurring in regional planning which pave the way for a more decentralized planning process. However, in spite of the new understanding, even at central level, that the regions are capable of contributing efficient solutions to actual problems, these changes have not yet achieved a breakthrough in planning practice.

Frontmatter -- Preface by the Director of UNRISD / McGranahan, Donald V. -- Foreword by the Editor -- Contents -- PART ONE: PAPERS -- 1. Contact systems and regional development / Törnqvist, Gunnar -- 2. Regional information and regional planning in Latin America / Odell, Peter R. -- 3. Regional information and regional planning in Mexico / Carrillo-Arronte, R. / Grosman, V. -- 4. Regional information and regional planning in Tanzania / Lundqvist, Jan -- 5.The regional analysis problem / Leven, C.L. / Legler, J.B. / Shapiro, P. -- PART TWO: CASE STUDIES -- 1. Regional statistics in Poland: Current problems and development prospects / Kawalec, Wincenty -- 2. Information systems for regional development in Sweden / Hermansen, Tormod -- 3. Information systems for regional development in Chile / Boisier, Sergio -- 4. Regional information, regional statistics and regional planning in India / Pal, Manindra Nath -- Biography of the contributors

Machine generated contents note: List of Tables, Figures and Boxes vii -- List of Contributors ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- List of Abbreviations xii -- PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 -- 1 Introduction 3 -- Tim Marshall -- PART II: REGIONAL REALITIES AND REGIONAL 21 -- INSTITUTIONS -- 2 Thinking about the English Regions 23 -- Allan Cochrane -- 3 Scenarios for the Future of Regional Planning Within 35 -- UK/EU Spatial Planning -- Jeremy Alden -- 4 The Regional Agenda, Planning and Development in 54 -- Scotland -- Greg Lloyd -- 5 Government Offices for the Regions and Regional Planning 70 -- Mark Baker -- 6 Integrating Local and Central Concerns in the New 88 -- Regional Landscape: Pipe Dream or Political Project? -- Martin Stott -- PART III: THEMES AND TOPICS 95 -- 7 Regional Transport Strategies: Fond Hope or Serious 97 -- Planning? -- Peter Headicar -- 8 Re-Shaping Regions, Re-Ordering Utilities: 110 -- Competing Development Trajectories -- Simon Marvin -- 9 Promoting Sustainable Development through Regional 125 -- Plans: The Role of the Environment Agency -- Hugh R Howes -- 10 Regional Planning and the Environmental Dimension of 145 -- Sustainable Development -- Peter Roberts -- PART IV: REGIONAL PLANNING - REGIONAL 163 -- VARIATION -- 11 Integrated Policy Development at the Regional Level - A 165 -- Case Study of the East Midlands Integrated Regional -- Strategy -- Tony Aitchison -- 12 Regional Planning in the West Midlands 191 -- John Deegan -- 13 The South West - Lessons for the Future 208 -- Don Gobbett and Mike Palmer -- 14 Regional Planning in South East England - A Case of 226 -- 'Eyes Wide Shut' -- Chris M Williams -- PART V: CONCLUSIONS 245 -- 15 Some Interim Conclusions: Regional Planning Guidance 247 -- and Regional Governance for the 21st Century -- John Glasson

The article examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the development of center-regional relations on the example of the Italian Republic. The pandemic has become a serious test of the effectiveness and strength of interaction between central governments and regions, and analysis of the socio-political results of almost two years of the difficult test makes it possible to clarify the understanding of the nature of modern Italian regionalism, and allows us to present a forecast for its further development. The study of this research is inscribed in a broad analytical and historical context. The conceptualization of analytical tools has been clarified, including the concepts of decentralization, regionalization, federalization, devolution, separatism, irredentism, autonomism. Political decentralization in Italy is considered in a historical retrospective by analyzing the goals, drivers and main milestones of the emergence and development of autonomist and separatist projects, including taking into account the study of the "North-South" issue. Various alternatives for the further evolution of center-periphery relations are considered, taking into account the negative impact of the pandemic. The conclusion is argued that the central government as a whole has demonstrated the ability to mobilize and pursue a flexible policy that meets social demand in key parameters, as a result of which society has rallied around the anti-crisis agenda and increased support for the central government. At this stage, it is considered that a relative public agreement has been reached taking into account the increase of current problems in case of active support of separatist political actors. Provided that the national government develops a further effective policy that keeps in mind the needs of the regions, it will help maintain the stability of the center-regional relations for the future.