Residential suburbanisation in the hinterland of Bratislava – a case study of municipalities in the Austrian border area

This paper provides an overview of the process of residential suburbanisation in the hinterland of Bratislava. The study focuses on the municipalities around the Austrian border area. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the characteristics of cross-border suburbanisation, which is a significant spatial phenomenon in the municipalities of northern Burgenland and the south-eastern part of Lower Austria. The analysis has a spatio-temporal dimension, as it depicts the time-space characteristics of the phenomenon – both for a single time point, as well as for a time series from the approximate beginning of the onset of suburbanisation up to the present. While monitoring the growth of the number of Slovaks in the study area, we observed a gradual increase in all the selected municipalities of the Austrian border area, with the distance from Bratislava being a significant factor here. The analysis of migration in the surveyed municipalities showed predominantly positive migration efficiency – immigration was negated by emigration only to a small extent (compared to suburbanisation in the Slovak hinterland of Bratislava, which is, however, relatively high). The structural characteristics of Slovak immigrants, where the younger age group of 30 to 44 years followed by a child component up to 14 years predominated, attest to the ongoing process of suburbanisation. The research confirmed the advancing residential suburbanisation and expansion of the cross-border suburban hinterland of Bratislava.

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Inequalities in access to cross-border resources? An analysis based on spatio-temporal behaviours in the cross-border area of Greater Geneva

European Urban and Regional Studies ◽

10.1177/09697764211026716 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 096977642110267

Author(s):

Alexis Gumy ◽

Guillaume Drevon ◽

Vincent Kaufmann

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Border Area ◽

Cross Border ◽

The Social ◽

Neighbouring Country ◽

Logistic Regressions ◽

The Cross ◽

Spatio Temporal

With an activity-based approach, this article offers a new reading of cross-border integration by exploring the social and spatial conditions that predispose specific populations of Greater Geneva to cross its borders. Five different daily cross-border patterns were identified showing that travelling to the neighbouring country is still uncommon among the least qualified populations and women, and that this trend now extends beyond the mere cross-border labour market. Logistic regressions show that Greater Geneva is witnessing a functionalisation of its cross-border integration, revealing mechanisms where the increase of particular mobility may foster segregation and inequalities. This article argues for an approach where cross-border integration is not an objective but rather is a consequence of obligations and constraints that individuals face in their daily behaviours.

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Plague Time: Space, Fear, and Emergency Statecraft in Early Modern Italy

Renaissance and Reformation ◽

10.33137/rr.v44i2.37522 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 87-111

Author(s):

Nicholas A. Eckstein

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Temporal Dimension ◽

Early Modern Italy ◽

Time Space ◽

Contingent Response ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

Historical Examination

Michel Foucault argued famously that early modern European governors responded to plague by quarantining entire urban populations and placing citizens under minute surveillance. For Foucault, such sixteenth- and seventeenth-century policies were the first steps towards an authoritarian paradigm that would only emerge in full in the eighteenth century. The present article argues that Foucault’s model is too abstracted to function as a tool for the historical examination of specific emergencies, and it proposes an alternative analytical framework. Addressing itself to actual events in early modern Italy, the article reveals that when plague threatened, Florentine and Bolognese health officials projected themselves into a spatio-temporal dimension in which official actions and perceptions were determined solely by the spread of contagion. This dimension, “plague time,” was not a stage on the irresistible journey towards Foucault’s “utopia of the perfectly governed city.” A contingent response to a recurrent existential menace, plague time rose and fell in response to events, and may be understood as a season.

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Geotourism Potential Assessment: a Case Study of the Czech-Austrian cross-border area

Geoheritage ◽

10.1007/s12371-020-00522-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jiří Rypl ◽

Marek Havlíček ◽

Ivo Dostál

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Mountainous Area ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

Border Area ◽

Cross Border ◽

Car Traffic ◽

Hiking Trails ◽

Bed Capacity

AbstractThe aim of the study is to assess the potential of tourism in the Novohradské Mountains and the Gratzen Mountains on the borderland of the Czech Republic and Austria, with a focus on geotourism. A partial objective was to evaluate the accompanying infrastructure in the background of geomorphologically attractive localities, especially the accessibility of the area by means of hiking trails and accommodation facilities. Five geomorphosites in the Czech Republic and four geomorphosites in Austria were examined for characteristics and relationships. The overall density of recreational routes is much higher on the Austrian side than on the Czech territory. Similarly, the use of car traffic, cycling and hiking on the Czech side is worse than on the Austrian side. The total number of beds is currently larger on the Czech side of the territory. However, beds on the Czech side are located in smaller accommodation capacities, which experienced unprecedented development after 1989, especially with the possibility of visiting previously unavailable territory. On the Austrian side of the territory, the larger bed capacity is concentrated in hotel complexes focusing on wellness and balneology; this is mainly due to the undisturbed, long-term development of the territory and the greater purchasing power of Austrian citizens. At a distance of up to 5 km and within 10 km of the geomorphosites, there are significantly larger accommodation capacities on the Czech side of the territory. In a wider area within 15 km, the accommodation capacities in both territories are similar. This is due to the location of geomorphosites in Austria, which are located in more central and interesting parts of the mountainous area, far from settlements. The availability of accommodation facilities in the wider area combined with other attractions has great potential for multi-day stays in the region.

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Governance, Planning, and Territorial Management

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability - Management and Conservation of Mediterranean Environments ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch016 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 271-293

Author(s):

José Manuel Jurado Almonte ◽

Francisco José Pazos-García ◽

Jesús Felicidades García

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Spatial Planning ◽

The European Union ◽

Border Effect ◽

Border Area ◽

Cross Border ◽

Territorial Management ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

In the European Union, there have been significant developments in recent decades in cross-border cooperation and the removal of borders. Thirty years have passed since the launch of the Interreg funds, which finance territorial cooperation policies between Spain and Portugal. Despite these developments, which have encouraged economic and social flows between the two states, the border effect persists in many aspects, especially in terms of governance and shared territorial management. This study, therefore, focuses on how to address the border issue in the different spatial, sectoral, and urban planning instruments. This has involved analysing the different governance, planning, and territorial management systems in Spain and Portugal using the cross-border area of the Baixo Guadiana as a case study. As a preview of the results, following a comparative diagnosis, a number of obstacles and differences in spatial planning, and other territorial actions in this area have been revealed that are a hindrance to the integrated planning and co-management of the Spanish-Portuguese border area.

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Researches on the consumers’ behaviour of organic food. Case study, Romania–Bulgaria cross border area

Journal of Biotechnology ◽

10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.07.198 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 185 ◽

pp. S58-S59

Author(s):

Daniela Cretu ◽

Andrei Radu Iova ◽

Iulian Alecu

Keyword(s):

Organic Food ◽

Border Area ◽

Cross Border

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Editorial

TRANSNATIONAL MARKETING JOURNAL ◽

10.33182/tmj.v6i1.375 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 1-2

Author(s):

Ibrahim Sirkeci

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Mobile Marketing ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

The Third ◽

Cross Border ◽

Local Characteristics ◽

Critical Account

Transnational Marketing Journal is dedicated to disseminate scholarship on cross-border phenomena in marketing by acknowledging the importance of local and global or in other words, underlining the transnational practices marked by national and local characteristics in a fluid fashion spreading over more than one national territory. The first article by Paulette Schuster looks into “falafel” and “shwarma” in Mexico and discusses the perception of Israeli food in Mexico. The second article is a case study illustrating a critical account of cultural dimensions formulated by Schwarz using the value surveys data. The third article in the issue is a qualitative study of the negative attitudes of millennials torwards mobile marketing.

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Exploring Subbordia – the impact of suburbanisation in cross-border metropolitan regions. The case study of Szczecin and its German hinterland

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2018-0031 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 5-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martin Barthel ◽

Ewelina Barthel

Keyword(s):

Border Region ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Metropolitan Regions ◽

Grass Roots ◽

Planning Support ◽

Cross Border ◽

Connected Area ◽

The Impact ◽

Local Narratives

Abstract This paper focuses on the largely unexamined phenomenon of the developing trans-national suburban area west of Szczecin. Sadly the local communities in this functionally connected area struggle with national planning policies that are unsuitable for the region. The paper examines the impact of those processes on the border region in general and on the localities in particular. The paper investigates the consequences for local narratives and the cohesive development of the Euroregion and what position Polish and German communities took to develop the region, even without the necessary planning support. The region has succeeded in establishing grass-roots planning mechanisms which have helped to create a metropolitan-region working from the bottom up.

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The Polish-Slovak cross-border cooperation in the sphere of culture: the case study analysis

Cultural Management Science and Education ◽

10.30819/cmse.1-1.06 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joanna Kurowska-Pysz ◽

Jolita Greblikaitė

Keyword(s):

Study Analysis ◽

Case Study Analysis ◽

Cross Border ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

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Gestion des bassins hydrographiques transfrontaliers et institutionnalisation

Regions & Cohesion ◽

10.3167/reco.2014.040204 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 54-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lucile Medina

Keyword(s):

El Salvador ◽

River Basins ◽

Border Area ◽

Logical Approach ◽

Transboundary River ◽

Cross Border ◽

Shared Management ◽

Transboundary River Basins ◽

Transboundary Watersheds ◽

Del Rio

The Grupo Gestor Binacional de la Cuenca del Río Goascorán (GGBCG) was created in 2007 as an original initiative managing a shared basin in the Eastern part of El Salvador-Honduras boundary. In less than twenty years, the issue of confrontation in this border area has led to a logical approach to reconciliation and cooperation through shared management of the Río Goascorán basin. This article analyzes the ways in which the actors involved understand this cooperation. The initiative that is studied is part of a regional context that is of interest for the management of transboundary river basins. Several elements relevant to the analyzed case are addressed, including the difficulty of cross-border action and shared management, the turnover of the actors involved, and the forms of institutionalization on which the management of transboundary watersheds can be based. Spanish Este artículo se interesa en la conformación del Grupo de Gestión Binacional de la Cuenca del Río Goascorán (GGBCG) en el año 2007, como una iniciativa original de gestión de una cuenca compartida en la parte oriental de la frontera Honduras-El Salvador. El artículo muestra cómo en menos de veinte años, la problemática de enfrentamiento en este sector fronterizo dio lugar a una lógica de acercamiento y de cooperación por medio de la gestión compartida de la cuenca del Río Goascorán. También se analizan las formas en que los actores involucrados conciben la cooperación alrededor de la cuenca. El presente artículo resalta varios elementos de reflexión a través del caso analizado: la dificultad de la acción transfronteriza y de la gestión compartida; la renovación de los actores involucrados; así como las formas de institucionalización sobre las cuales puede basarse la gestión de cuencas transfronterizas que invitan a interrogarse sobre la conformación del GGBCG. French Cet article s'intéresse à la constitution depuis 2007 d'un Grupo Gestor Binacional de la Cuenca del Río Goascorán (GGBCG) comme initiative originale de gestion d'un bassin partagé sur la partie orientale de la frontière Honduras-El Salvador. L'article montre comment, en moins de vingt ans, la problématique d'affrontement sur ce secteur frontalier longtemps en litige a laissé la place à une logique de rapprochement et de coopération par le biais de la gestion partagée du bassin du Río Goascorán. Il analyse également les formes sous lesquelles les acteurs impliqués conçoivent la coopération autour du bassin. L'initiative étudiée s'inscrit dans un contexte régional d'intérêt pour la gestion des bassins hydrographiques transfrontaliers. Cet article met en lumière plusieurs éléments de réflexion à travers le cas analysé : la difficulté de l'action transfrontalière et de la gestion partagée ; le renouvellement des acteurs mobilisés ; les formes d'institutionnalisation sur lesquelles peut reposer la gestion de bassins transfrontaliers, que la création du GGBCG invite à interroger.

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