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Under the new 'European territorial Co-operation' objective of the EU's cohesion policy the programmes for the funding period 2007-2013 refer to 'natural', 'environmental' or 'flood' risks. To reduce these risks, activities are funded which allow for better risk assessment, control, prevention, and management. The subject of the paper is an analysis of whether and how environmental and natural risks were in the past addressed. Based on this, the draft programmes for the new funding period will be examined. The key questions are as follows: How do European territorial co-operation programmes approach risks of various kinds? And secondly, the structural funds provide a considerable amount of funding for dealing with risks - but do the funds also encourage appropriate actions in response to the risks identified? The paper will analyse how programme actors and project partners react to risks and how they approach risk reduction or prevention. Examples are taken from the INTERREG III B CADSES programme (2000-2006) and from the preparation of its follow-up programmes for European Territorial Co-operation in Central Europe and South-Eastern Europe (2007-2013) ; The paper is published by the European Journal of Spatial Development (EJSD). The previous version of the journal was host by Nordregio.

Graute, U., Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden, Germany (Ed.) Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe¤Spatial Development in the European Context¤The main research topics and the discussion among researchers and governmental representatives are featured in this study. In the first chapter, government officials give insight into the current development of the European Spatia¤l Planning Policy. Following this, research reports on developments around the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea make political strategies apparent. This unique combination of the discussion of strategies for sustainable regional devel¤opmentin Europe with different CEE research reports is an important source of information not just for experts in central and eastern Europe. Moreover, it documents the state of the art in regional science and gives an impression of what development strategies mean in view of a major European region. Keywords: landscape planning, european integration, environmental politics Fields: Landscape/Regional and Municipal Planning; Environmental Economics; Geography¤Written for: Environmental scientists, geographers, political scientists, economists, planners working for governmental institutions or as private consultants; institutes, libraries Contents: The European Debate on Sustainable Spatial Development.- Towards a European Spatial Development Policy.- Cross-border Cooperation and Development.- Danube -Waterway and Water Preservation.- Vision and Strategies around t¤he Baltic Sea 2010.- Starting Points and First Efforts for Cooperation in the Black Sea.- Eastern European Development Perspectives after Chernobyl Belorussian and Ukrainian Experiences.- Perspective.