The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), a framework for political, economic and social relations between the European Union and its Southern Mediterranean neighbours, saw daylight in Barcelona on 27-29 November 1995. Ten years on, the international conditions in which the EMP operates have been radically altered by events in the Middle East as well as the enlargement of the EU. How well has the partnership performed in this changing environment and what are its prospects for the future?

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* Research Fellow at the United Nations University—Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU—CRIS), Bruges, Belgium.     

长三角大都市区文化景观特征评估

风景园林界对快速城镇化地区的文化景观特征研究方法与变化管理缺乏本土化、系统化的探索。应用景观特征评估对长三角大都市区的文化景观进行了多尺度的分区、分类与评估：在区域尺度界定了21个景观特征区域；在城市尺度，苏州市涵盖了13个景观特征区域，其中圩田景观可分为岛型、网络型、破碎型和标准型4类。基于景观元素与模式显著性与韧性的评价结果，提出在城乡规划与风景园林规划中需优先保护与更新水系与土地分割模式的空间策略。