The identification of transnational needs and challenges in regard to spatial development in the Alpine Space will be based on an analysis of relevant transnational and national documents and selected relevant research results as well.

Therefore the meaning of two terms have a crucial influence on results:

• Sustainable Spatial Development (SSD)
• Transnational approaches

The way how to analyse the documents compiled in the WIKIAlps project is explained in a short document analysis methodology.

The outcomes of transnational and national documents are presented along some central key questions of such a transnational sustainable spatial development:

• Which type and dimension of transnational operations are documents dealing with?
• What are added values of transnational spatial development expected in these documents ?
• What are obstacles for transnational spatial development observed for a transnational SSD ?
• What are proposals and good examples transnational spatial development referred to in the documents ?
• What are key stakeholders for transnational spatial development and the topics in the documents ?

Find answers on these key questions following further the links above!

Besides the explanations in the active links above you also may enter the wiki database tab on transnational needs. The database section transnational needs provides you an overview of all relevant issues found in the analysis of the documents.

These transnational needs and challenges may in a later stage also be used as a methodological tool in the project analysis to assess which of the needs and challenges are being addressed in Alpine Space projects and which of these have been unrepresented.

For a more detailed description of the approach, the methodology and key findings of the document analysis, please refer to the Working Paper on Action 4.2 Transnational Needs.

The documents analysed are part of the list in this article Document & Sources. Additional documents have been added since.

The WIKIAlps project developed transnational recommendations for governance in terms of sustainable development, conclusions for relevance of these outcomes for macro-regional strategy and coordination of suggestions for 2014+ and national policy makers.