1. Scenario Workshops Summary

2. Economy
Scale of analysis vs. scale of practical intervention / problems
Pure economic approach + sort-sighted approaches vs. other values
But: don’t ask the models to do everything
Competitiveness approach in CEEC due to lack of other alternatives (no means for regional policy)
Competition v cohesion & sustainability: no 0|1 solutions but compromise solutions
Phasing approach: promise of future paradise in exchange for current sufferings ? => spatial inertia
Combine policy for growth poles with policy for capacity for diffusion => don’t fight it, cope with it
Don’t exaggerate influence of planners: scenarios should deliver ideas on most important future trends for regional development

3. Demography Consequences of ageing on territorial development:
Ageing maybe not a problem: territorial diversity
Restructuring of economic production processes
Some national/regional social systems overburdened: higher level redistribution
Levers for altering natural population trends:
Job security and child care
Financial and housing security
But scepticism about real possibilities
Immigration as lever:
Cultural stability as important as stable population
Immigration might artificially support obsolete structures
Division between labour and knowledge regions

4. Environment Main threats
Loss of biodiversity, urban sprawl, fragmentation
Intensification of agriculture (biofuels)
Climate change: water shortage, floods, heat
4 areas: nordic, coast, mountain, Mediterranean
New technological developments
New forms of storage of energy & self-sufficiency
Small scale energy production: opportunity for rural
Policies
Ambiguous role of environment as cross-cutting theme
Implementation, not new policies
Financial measure to incite new technologies
Need for more climate change adaptation measures

5. Transport/Energy
Transport policy impact strongly depends on actual realisation of connections
Distinguish high and low speed transport
High costs of HST limit subsitution potential vs. Airlines
Depends on energy prices/constraints
Future urban sprawl = balance between energy and land prices
Whole system can strongly be influenced by new technologies, railway systems, settlements patterns
Increase of divergence in accessibility: high vs low speed, high vs low accessibility
Concentration on certain corridors
”recommendations”: improve, not increase road capacity; no excessive privatisation; differentiate approaches according to local conditions