Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation
Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation

Author: Elisabetta Nadalutti

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1351764543

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This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development, the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast, this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties, investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes, and to clarify to what extent, and under what conditions, cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics, sociology, geography, and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective.

New Borders for a Changing Europe
New Borders for a Changing Europe

Author: Liam O'Dowd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 113576056X

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The "deepening and widening" of the EU has thrown its changing internal and external borders into sharp relief. This work demonstrates that borders are key spaces within which issues such as identity, memory and trust, and communication between states continue to be played out and transformed.

Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions
Globalization, Regionalization and Cross-Border Regions

Author: M. Perkmann

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-07-12

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0230596096

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Cross-border regions are newly emerging social spaces stretching across national borders. Globalization makes national borders more permeable and leads to a rearrangement of economic and political interactions. This is particularly pronounced within supra-regional blocs featuring specific internal border regimes. The ensuing opportunities are increasingly seized to create border-spanning discourses and institutions. This is illustrated in the book by a range of experts analyzing cross-border regions in Europe, America, East Asia and Africa.

Cooperation Between European Border Regions
Cooperation Between European Border Regions

Author: Jens-Dieter Gabbe

Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783832933906

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In this collection, the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) examines the important results and achievements of 40 years of cross-border cooperation. The book describes the accomplishments of the AEBR at a European level, the developments in different parts of Europe, key elements of successful cross-border cooperation, as well as the contribution of cross-border cooperation to a European integration based on regional diversity. The "European house" needs to be built from the bottom, while resting on solid foundations. And these foundations are made from the day-to-day cooperation of people, municipalities, and regions across borders. The perspectives of cross-border cooperation are of vital importance for Europe. The Treaty of Lisbon and the EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 set the framework for the future. One thing is certain, for many years to come, cross-border cooperation will remain a political priority of the EU.

Border Futures-Zukunft Grenze-Avenir Frontière
Border Futures-Zukunft Grenze-Avenir Frontière

Author: Karina Pallagst

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3888384362

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What current discourses are relevant for border areas? What opportunities for and obstacles to integrated territorial development arise from the specific situation of border regions? How can these be utilised or overcome in a goal-oriented way? These questions were central to the discussions of the Border Futures working group. Border regions like the Greater Region or the Trinational Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine extend far beyond the immediate border area. While institutional structures of cooperation can be perpetuated through agreements and organisations, there is a lack of instruments which cross-border cooperation structures can deploy in response to changing situations. Cross-border cooperation faces new challenges from increasing cross-border interactions, processes of economic structural transformation, new energy policies in the national sub-spaces, and demographic change. Another factor is increasing spatial polarisation, which influences the further development and future viability of the affected border areas, and involves metropolisation issues in urban centres and the provision of public services in rural districts. Building on discussions of the Border Futures working group, this volume sheds light on cross-border cooperation in practice with recent research relevant to planning in border regions in the European context. The insights collected here are intended to be usable in the border areas within the territory of the Regional Working Group and should also contribute towards the broader specialist discourse on the further development of cross-border cooperation. Issues of sustainable cross-border governance, new spatial functions and new planning instruments play a role here, as do the possibilities provided by the current EU structural policy programming period for border areas

Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Strategies for Sustainable Development
Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Strategies for Sustainable Development

Author: Castanho, Rui Alexandre

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-02-14

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1799825159

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As the importance of sustainability in strategy and development grows, so does the importance of cross-border cooperation (CBC) to facilitate green projects. Border territories, however, are complex and fragile areas, and thus, their planning through CBC projects should be deeply analyzed and studied. It has become crucial to understand this issue across many different disciplines. Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Strategies for Sustainable Development is a pivotal reference source that provides relevant theoretical frameworks and trends in border area dynamics as well as cross-border cooperation’s influence on sustainable development. Highlighting topics such as CBC in insular territories, biodiversity policy, and sustainable planning and development, this book is ideally designed for culture analysts, sustainability specialists, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students.

Cross-Border Management
Cross-Border Management

Author: Rongxing Guo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 3662451565

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This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this context, the use of the word “new” has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of borders (which are natural, institutional, functional, or mixed); the second concerns the fact that the book applies (and, where necessary, develops) analytical tools, methods and models that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country, a region, a community, a culture, or a firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world; to develop qualitative and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and, at the same time, to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on the rest of the world; and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.

Governing Territorial Development in the Western Balkans
Governing Territorial Development in the Western Balkans

Author: Erblin Berisha

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-19

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3030721248

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This book offers a multifaceted overview of the evolution of spatial development, governance and planning in the Western Balkans from an institutionalist perspective. Written by experts in the field, it features various regional and national studies covering topics such as regional and spatial planning, territorial development and governance, and regional and cross-border cooperation in the Western Balkans. Offering a wealth of national, regional and local insights on territorial cooperation, development and planning, this book will appeal to scholars in regional and spatial sciences and related fields alike.