ABSTRACT
Spatial planners have increasingly come to regard the discipline as a comprehensive instrument to balance cross-sector development goals, measure impacts and allocate resources. These activities are translated in strategic spatial visions that have become increasingly popular throughout the EU. The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development have become one of the main pillars of these visions as well as being an important objective. This chapter seeks to provide an overview of ways in which these concepts are being translated in such strategies and examines the relationship between spatial planning and sustainability in regional development strategies.
