Spatial development is a really multi-faceted task that integrates all spatially relevant aspects of sectoral policies and processes.
Sustainable spatial development is the attempt to transfer the general sustainability objectives to spatial development, by this bridging the gap between the concept of sustainability and its spatial implications (cf. Marzelli, Lintzmeyer & Schwarz 2008).
According to Keiner (2005) the following objectives in can be considered as such a concretisation of sustainable spatial development objectives:
Densify settlements and economically use land resources
Reduce traffic through co-ordination of
urban development and public transport and promote environmentally compatible tourism
Safeguard environmental quality and protect the population from immissions and risks from waste treatment, disposal and natural hazards
Protect, promote and establish links between unintersected and semi-natural stretches of land
Decentrally concentrate economic activities, central-place-functions and settlement nodes
Secure access to land as a factor of production in centres of economic development
Efficiently use energy
Safeguard access to basic infrastructural needs of energy and communication
Secure cultural landscapes through agriculture that operates nature-oriented
Protect valuable architectural ensembles of villages and
landscapes
What are for the Alpine area most relevant transnational topics of SSD ?