ABSTRACT
These days, when preparing and implementing their policies, governments depend on a range of other actors. Thus the art of government becomes what is called governance. This is particularly so where governments deal with their territories and with territorial development. If land use regulations and public spending on projects were sufficient to ensure that the territories for which they are responsible develop as intended, then governments would not need to obtain the acquiescence of and/or the active support from other actors. But they do, and their appeals to various other actors and the related structures, mechanisms and processes are captured by the term territorial governance. However, since control over its territory is one of the defining features of the sovereign state, the advent of the concept of territorial governance raises fundamental questions about the very nature of the state.
