Governance in Regional Development Planning? Exploring the Danish Case

This paper is the result of an initial project aimed at exploring the conditions and opportunities for anchoring and implementing regional development planning in Denmark. The paper mainly adopts a descriptive position that focuses on a governance framework for planning and policy-making to further discuss strengths and challenges concerning regional development planning processes and strategies. The expected outcome of the paper is threefold: i. to describe and discuss a governance framework pointed toward regional development planning; ii. to delve into the current regional development planning situation in the Danish context, and iii. to establish a number of research questions aimed at determining further steps that could contribute in learning more about potential conditions and opportunities to anchor regional development planning