Building walls, breaking barriers: Territory, integration and the rule of law in frontier zones

Machado, Luciana; Novaes, André Reyes; Monteiro, Licio do Rego

doi:10.1080/08865655.2009.9695742

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“…Many studies (described below) have assessed transboundary differences, but in most cases focussed on a single border or even in a narrow section of it, not taking into account the initial biophysical potential of the system and often without integrating variables from different disciplines. Economists have looked into variables reflecting economic growth and demography in the vicinity of borders (Machado et al 2009;Pinkovskiy 2013). Earth scientists have studied biophysical differences of borderlands, such as differences in terrain roughness in neighbour regions of Africa (Nunn and Puga 2012) or different soil erosion rates at the country scale as a consequence of differing national agricultural practices (Wuepper et al 2019).…”

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“…Land systems and sustainability scientists have analyzed forest use, management and disturbances under different human population growth and land ownership across borders (Kuemmerle et al 2006;Röder et al 2015;Wuepper et al 2019;Wulder et al 2007). Social scientists have studied borders as places of major socio-political conflicts associated with religion, identity, governance, trade or migration (Krichker 2019;Machado et al 2009;Rumley and Minghi 1991;Van Houtum 2005). Political geographers have studied the uneven distribution of natural resources, such as water or energy, generating rent conflicts across national borders (Irarrazaval 2020;Mohammadpour et al 2019).…”

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Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America

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The landscape configuration of socio-ecological land systems results from the interaction between the environmental conditions (relatively homogeneous within ecoregions) and country-level management and land-use decisions. However, social, land-use and sustainability research disciplines often study each independently. We used Euclidean distance analyses of five indicators of land systems functioning to explore the geographical patterns of across-border human-induced asymmetries in transnational ecoregions of South America. The most asymmetric transnational ecoregions occurred in the tropical rainforest biome which also showed the widest range of asymmetry values compared to other biomes. In contrast, transnational ecoregions in montane grasslands showed comparatively little asymmetries, and tropical dry forests showed intermediate asymmetry values. This pattern indicates that major asymmetries occur in land systems located in productive biomes with a comparatively recent history of development, whereas mature socio-ecosystems with a long history of human land use are more homogeneous across borders. In some cases, asymmetries may stabilize as a consequence of reinforcing feedbacks that promote contrasting land-use decisions across borders, including, for example, the establishment of protected areas, or the promotion of agro-industrial activities. Transnational socio-ecological land systems can be used to evaluate alternatives for sustainable development because they highlight the influence of institutions under different governance regimes in defining the spatial configuration and ecological properties of regions. We invite land-use and sustainability scientists to consider political border interactions as valuable “natural experiments” to better understand the interrelations between biophysical and political systems in defining planetary geographical-ecology in the Anthropocene.

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Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America

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“…La mayoría de las fronteras internas se mantuvieron marginales a los principales flujos de asentamiento. A pesar del intermitente establecimiento de controles fronterizos e intentos de colonización, éstas permanecieron pobladas por población indígena que ignoraba los límites entre los estados" (Machado, Et. Al., 2009, 100 y 101).…”

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Rethinking the Regional Security Complex Theory: A South American view between 2008-2016

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2021

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With this article, we propose to reformulate the Regional Security Complex Theory, by Buzan and Waever, through a South American vision, with the time frame 2008-2016. To this end, we will analyse South America through Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, and their forms of intra and extra-regional interaction, highlighting the Colombia-United States relations, and the South American Defence Council, of the Union of South American Nations. This article is divided into a first section marked by an understanding of the Regional Complex Theory, in which we present and discuss its theoretical elements and weaknesses, and propose theoretical changes that will guide our analysis. The second section contains information about the South American Complex in the academic view, focusing on the arguments of Buzan and Waever. In the third section, we present the South American Regional Security Complex restructured, as well as the analysis of its dynamics. The central argument of the article is the need to reformulate the Theory in question for a better understanding of the complexities and unique characteristics of South America.

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Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Journalistic Maps: South American Borders in the Brazilian Press

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Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

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Building walls, breaking barriers: Territory, integration and the rule of law in frontier zones

Cited by 36 publications

References 10 publications

Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America

Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America

Rethinking the Regional Security Complex Theory: A South American view between 2008-2016

Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Journalistic Maps: South American Borders in the Brazilian Press

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