The “Handbook of Territorial Governance” was published in September 2025 by Elgar.

Integrating political, social, and technical dimensions of territorial governance, this timely Handbook provides insights into the topic from scholars across urban and regional planning, policy, geography and economics. It offers a comprehensive exploration of territorial governance systems across different theoretical perspectives, themes and geographies, from Europe to Asia, Africa and beyond. Leading experts discuss territorial governance in relation to concrete spatial policy issues, including housing and transportation policies, as well as broader aspects of human existence, such as climate change and planetary commons. 

Chapter 38 of the handbook on “Territorial governance with limited sovereignty: how external control of space can change the role of the state” was written by Erblin Berisha, Franziska Sielker and Peter Dannenberg.

The handbook’s website: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317288, opens an external URL in a new window