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The impacts of spatial planning on the sustainable territorial development of the Rhine-Danube Trans-European Transport Corridor through Serbia

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Pages 278-297 | Received 17 Jun 2016, Accepted 08 Nov 2016, Published online: 28 Nov 2016
 

ABSTRACT

The Danube River is both the international waterway E-80 and the Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor of nine European corridors in the trans-European transport network, and it is the core area of the most significant Danubian development axis in the Republic of Serbia. The present research focus of this paper is the integrated impact of spatial planning on achieving the sustainable territorial development of the Rhine-Danube Corridor through Serbia and its potential transboundary impact. Integrated assessment (environmental and social), based on the combined application of the standard strategic environmental assessment (SEA) method and the newly presented adapted strategic environmental assessment (ASEA) method, has made it possible to predict the effects of future activities on the sustainable territorial development of the waterway corridor, not only in Serbia, but also in other Danubian countries. The applied combination of the SEA and ASEA methods is presented in the form of key planning solutions in three selected sectors: international inland waterway, water management infrastructure and tourism. The results indicate that the negative impacts of potential conflicts between the planning solutions are far greater than the negative impacts of individual planning solutions, and that it is more difficult to control and mitigate or neutralize them.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Marina Nenković-Riznić http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-4151

Additional information

Funding

This work has resulted from research within scientific project No TR36036 ‘Sustainable development of the Danube area in Serbia’, and No III 47014 ‘The role and implementation of the national spatial plan and regional development in the renewal of strategic research, thinking and governance in Serbia’, financed by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development.

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