Meet the editors

Rui Alexandre Castanho has a master's degree in Planning, Audit, and Control in Urban Green Spaces and an international Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning in Borderlands. Currently, he is a professor at WSB University, Poland, and Coordinator of International Relations at the Research Institute on Territorial Cooperation and Inter-Organizational Cooperation. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South

Africa. Dr. Castanho is a post-doc researcher on the GREAT Project, University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal. He collaborates with the Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (ARAM), University of Extremadura (UEx); VALORIZA - Research Center for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Madeira, Portugal; and AQUAGEO Research Group, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

Gualter Couto obtained a BSc in Business Management from Universidade dos Açores, Portugal, in 1995; an MSc in Business Management and an MBA from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa, in 1999; and a Ph.D. in Management/Finance from Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa, in 2006. Since 1996, Dr. Couto has been a Finance Professor at the School of Business and Econom-

ics, Universidade dos Açores. Since 2003, he has been a researcher at the Center of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic. He is an expert in corporate finance and previously served as director of the MBA program at Universidade dos Açores.

Rossana Santos is a full-time teacher and current coordinator of the BA in Hotel Management and Administration in the School of Technologies and Management, University of Madeira, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Tourism (2013), a master's degree in Tourism Management and Development (2004), and a BA in Tourism (2001). Since 2006, she has been teaching in tourism and hospitality courses at several Portuguese institutions. She

has also published several scientific papers on tourism.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*and Rui Castanho*

and Environmental Changes

*and José Cabezas Fernández*

2030 for Sustainable Development

**Preface XI**

A Brief Overview **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Peripheral Territories: The Borderlands **13**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 35**

Ultra-Peripheral Territories: The Islands **45**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 63**

Alignment between the Strategic Plans of Island Regions and the Agenda

*by Pedro Pimentel, André Oliveira, Gualter Couto, João Crispim Ponte* 

Peripheral Territories, Tourism, and Regional Development:

*by Rui Alexandre Castanho, Gualter Couto and Rossana Santos*

The Most Meridional Border in Europe. Demographic

*by José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Jacinto Garrido Velarde,* 

Establishing Integrated Territorial Development

*by Deolésio Mendes, Ana José and Joaquim Mourato*

The Azores Archipelago as a Region with Vast Potential for the Development of Adventure and Slow Tourism

*José Martín Gallardo, José Manuel Jurado Almonte, Julian Mora Aliseda* 

Common Regional Development Strategies on Iberian Territories - A Framework for Comprehensive Border Corridors Governance:

*by Ana Vulevic, Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez,* 

*José Cabezas, Luis Fernández-Pozo, Jacinto Garrido Velarde, José Martín Gallardo, Sérgio Lousada and Luís Loures*

Regional Development of Peripheral Territories

Introductory Chapter: Rural Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable
