WHAT STATE, WHAT MARKETS, FOR WHAT DEVELOPMENT - THE SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMICAL DIMENSIONS OF PLANNING

The collapse of ''real socialism'' and ''peripheric late capitalism'' and the exhaustion of the various models of ''Welfare capitalism'' dem and the theoretical and practical reconstruction of the entire field o f the eco-socio-economy of development and planning. Among the criteri a for a new approach would be social equity and environmental prudence . This project should be then translated into a strategy for developme nt which implies in turn a re-definition of state, market and the role of civil society and the forms of interaction between social actors. At the same time, the ways of articulation between the various areas - local, national, global - of development should be defined. In this f ramework, planning should be seen as a set of procedures for promoting societal debate on the ''project'', in order to elaborate long-term s trategies and identify the range of the decisions to be taken.