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PURPLE has added a further Topic Paper to its suite of documents looking at the relevance of particular issues for peri-urban areas. It can be viewed here.

Public governance happens everywhere of course but the newly released Topic Paper looks to identify what is particular about peri-urban public governance. It analyses what is especially characteristic of public governance in places where rural and urban interests have to be balanced and where complexity is often even more pronounced than elsewhere.

Given what we already know on the subject, it sets a series of challenges to policy-makers and suggests next steps. These include the development of a series of illustrative examples from peri-urban locations within and beyond PURPLE member regions.