The Role of Tourism in Cross-Border Region Formation in the Baltic Region

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena G. Kropinova
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Baltic

How can stakeholder participation improve European watershed management: the Water Framework Directive, watercourse groups and Swedish contributions to Baltic Sea eutrophication

Water Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Blomqvist
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Nutrient Losses ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Institutional Landscape ◽  
The Baltic

Nutrient losses from agricultural land constitute an important part of the total flow of nutrients to lakes and seas in Sweden and the Baltic region. With the Water Framework Directive, to be implemented shortly throughout Europe, emphasis is increasing on the role of stakeholder participation and decentralisation of various responsibilities from authorities to groups in the civil society. This paper investigates a Swedish case where local watercourse groups (WCGs) have formed in order to be involved more actively in the efforts to reduce nutrient losses from agricultural lands. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of the institutional landscape surrounding WCGs, goals, goal formulation and space of action.

scholarly journals Cross-Border Cultural Cooperation in European Border Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-162
Author(s):  
Giada Laganà ◽  
Timothy J. White
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Border Region ◽  
The European Union ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Local Cultures

The growing interaction between local cultures and international organisations suggests the need for peacebuilders to act strategically when trying to overcome cultural differences and build trust in societies long divided by bloody conflicts. This task is more difficult because the mental barriers that divide people and cultures are exacerbated by borders and walls. Through an analysis of the evolving role of the European Union (EU) in peacebuilding in the border region of Ireland, this forum contribution examines the potential of international organisations to enhance reconciliation by creating new cultural opportunities for cooperation. Existing scholarship focuses mainly on policy initiatives, strategies, directives and funding bodies, often failing to mention how theories are deployed by practitioners especially in the realm of cultural programmes.

scholarly journals The changing role of border regions in the regional policies of the EU and Russia

Baltic Region ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Kuznetsov ◽  
Olga V. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Regional Policies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Investment In Fixed Assets ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

This article analyses how the role of border regions has changed in the regional policies of Russia and European countries since the early 1990s. The study aims to estimate the efficiency of Russia’s regional policy with regard to border regions (its completeness, a focus on actual problems, etc.) and to compare it with that of European counterparts. The article relies on publications on the experience of EU countries, earlier contributions from Russian researchers, federal regulations, and statistics on the regional distribution of federal investment in fixed assets. It is shown that the federal border region policy is largely a reflection of the features and problems of Russia’s regional policy as a whole. Currently, the development of cross-border cooperation is affected more strongly by national security concerns than by economic growth considerations. Cross-border cooperation is no longer part of the regional policy. Border regions, however, have received an increasing proportion of federal investments in recent years, particularly, amid the reunification with the Crimea. The study calls for better coordination between different areas of the federal socio-economic policy on border regions and closer attention to border regions’ foreign economic ties, particularly, within the implementation of the Strategy for the Spatial Development of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Making ways for ‘better education’: Placing the Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility industry

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110427
Author(s):  
Maggi WH Leung ◽  
Johanna L Waters ◽  
Yunyun Qin
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Mobility System ◽  
And Control

Tens of thousands of children living on Mainland China cross the border between Shenzhen and Hong Kong for a ‘better education’ every day. A well-oiled industry is in place to manage, facilitate and control this education mobility field. It involves schools, diverse businesses and non-governmental organisations that, in articulation with the Chinese and Hong Kong states, stimulate and regulate the movement of people, materialities, ideas and practices. Drawing on our fieldwork and media analysis, this paper unpacks the transurban mobility industry to illustrate the role of the various players and how they work in conjunction to facilitate cross-border schooling, especially among the very young children. We map out and visualise with photos the workings of the schools, buses, escorts, tutoring centres, day care and boarding houses. We show how the mobility industry, intersecting with other business networks and mobility systems, links Shenzhen and Hong Kong, taking and making places in these cities, especially in the border region. Our paper illustrates the role of this mobility industry in the making of the political-economy and socio-culture of the border area, which constantly connects, divides and redefines the two cities and regions it bridges. We end with some reflections on the implications of the recent political challenges and COVID-19 pandemic on this cross-border education mobility system.

Scottish Ordovician ostracodes: a review of their palaeoenvironmental, biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance

2000 ◽  
Vol 91 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 499-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Williams ◽  
James D. Floyd ◽  
C. Giles Miller ◽  
David J. Siveter
Keyword(s):  
Carbonate Rocks ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Wide Geographical Distribution ◽  
Iapetus Ocean ◽  
Distributional Patterns ◽  
Early Palaeozoic ◽  
The Baltic

ABSTRACTOstracodes have a wide geographical distribution in the Ordovician of Scotland. They are known from the Southern Uplands, the Girvan district, the Highland Border region and the Inner Hebrides. Overall, more than forty species are recorded. They occur in clastic and carbonate rocks indicative of a range of shallow to deeper marine-shelf environments. Though many of the faunas are allochthonous, broad patterns of ostracode palaeoenvironmental distribution can be elucidated, and elements of the shallow marine Leperditella and open marineshelf Anisocyamus associations (previously recorded from N America) are present. Indigenous faunas are absent from the deep marine sediments of the Southern Uplands Northern Belt. Ostracodes are known from the Arenig, Llanvirn, Caradoc and Ashgill series in Scotland; those of the latter two series have widest biostratigraphical value. In the Girvan district the Caradoc species ‘Ctenobolbina’ ventrospinosa, Krausella variata, Balticella deckeri and Monoceratella teres have correlative value with N America, whilst the Ashgill species Kinnekullea comma appears to be a locum for the anceps graptolite Biozone in Britain, Ireland and possibly the eastern Baltic. The ostracodes are of typical Laurentian affinity, but show progressive generic links with the Baltic region during the late Llanvirn–Caradoc interval, and by Ashgill times display species-level links with southern Britain and Ireland. These distributional patterns suggest approaching geographical proximity for the early Palaeozoic continents of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia, and the ability of some Ordovician ostracodes to cross the Iapetus Ocean.

Italian Intrigue in the Baltic: Myth, Faith, and Politics in the Age of Baroque

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Aušra Baniulytė
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract This article examines the role of myth in Italian cultural politics in the Baltic region during the Baroque era. A special focus for this analysis is the legend about a “kinship” between the Florentine Pazzi family and the Lithuanian noble family of the Pacas (Polish: Pac), known in the sources of the seventeenth century as “the Pazzi in Lithuania.” This legend prevailed particularly in the second half of the Baroque period, having developed under the influence of different political, religious, and social aspects of Baroque culture. It played an important part in the Papacy’s interests in Poland-Lithuania during the Counter-Reformation and in the commercial activity of Italian merchants in the Baltic, which coincided with the expansion of the monastic orders in this region and the cult of St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, to whom the Pacas family expressed their devotion.

scholarly journals The development of a Russian-Polish cross-border region: the role of the Kaliningrad agglomeration and the Tri-City (Gdansk—Gdynia—Sopot)

Baltic Region ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Palmowski ◽  
Gennady M. Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Border Region ◽  
The West ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
The University ◽  
Geographical Economic ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Until 1991 ties between entities located on either side of the Russian-Polish border were virtually non-existent. There were, however, favourable physical, geographical, economic, social, and ekistical conditions for the development of a cross-border region. Since the early 1990s, cooperation between administrative units and municipalities, businesses, and non-governmental organisations has been developing on an institutional basis. Euroregions and cross-border cooperation programmes have become major contributors to cross-border region-building. On either side of the border, there are socio-economic nodes between which axes of cross-border interaction are emerging. The most powerful axis is the Tri-City (Gdansk-Gdynia-Sopot) — the Kaliningrad agglomeration. A systemic approach is used to analyse a variety of relationships, reflected in a map showing the diversity of geographical areas of cooperation. The University of Gdansk and the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University are playing an important role in the development of Russian—Polish relations. Although the intensity of cross-border ties has decreased in recent years amid tensions between Russia and the West, there is hope that bilateral socio-economic benefits will encourage the restoration and development of collaborations and the Russian—Polish cross-border region will continue to evolve.

New and old peripheries: Britain, the Baltic, and the Americas in the Great Divergence

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klas Rönnbäck
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Factor Endowment ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
One Step ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Baltic

AbstractIn his seminal bookThe Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This article takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. The article shows that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did not, however, enable the production of specific raw materials, such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent to be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.

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