Europeanisation of Cross-border Governance? A Case Study on the Cause, Form and Consequences of a Co-operation Project in the German–Polish–Czech Border Triangle

Leibenath, Markus

doi:10.1080/13562570701722022

Cited by 26 publications

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“…In the initial phase of cooperation, it is crucial to frame the issue to tie in with overarching discourses 'en vogue', e.g., the sustainability discourse in the 1990s or the climate change discourse in recent years. Often the specific leitmotifs of cross-border cooperation reflect discourses in other regions or at other levels of policy making (Leibenath, 2007;Skelcher and Sullivan, 2008, p. 763). Commitment and identification are also spurred by the use of appealing names, images and symbols.…”

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confidence: 98%

Transboundary cooperation in establishing ecological networks: The case of Germany's external borders

Leibenath

Blum

Stutzriemer

2010

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Transboundary cooperation in establishing ecological networks: The case of Germany's external borders

Leibenath

Blum

Stutzriemer

2010

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…The later that effort is made to do this, the more difficult it will be to achieve. Nevertheless, the potential for cooperation between Portugal and Spain is higher than between most neighbouring countries across the world, due to the strong bonds and similarities between them, in terms of their culture, language and history, their economic and social background, and current status (including the current social, economic and financial crisis), their shared environmental base conditions (including the north/south gap known as 'wet/dry Iberia'), and other major environmental problems, and their legislative and juridical cohesion under the EU and the process of 'europeanisation' (Leibenath, 2007;Vink & Paolo-Graziano, 2007;Thiel, 2009;Bukowski, 2011).…”

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Drought planning and management in transboundary river basins: the case of the Iberian Guadiana

2012

Water Policy

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i Droughts are recurrent chmatic hazards that cause major environmental, economic and social impacts, and increase the conflict potential between countries sharing transboundary river basins. The shared river basins of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Guadiana in particular, are of major significance for Mediterranean Europe, as examples of basins marked by aridity, water scarcity, and drought risk. A political agreement (the Albufeira Convention) regulates water issues between Portugal and Spain but an exception regime is applied under drought conditions, and the Convention looses its effectiveness. The two countries have different planning and management policies to tackle droughts, based on distinctive administrative and socio-economic structures. This paper analyses each country's framework, and assesses the level of cooperation and compUance with the basic pillars of transboundary water governance, identifying the potential and constraints for shared and effective transboundary drought planning and management. The analysis conducted shows how both countries fail to identify common beneflts and goals, based on a shared process of pubhc participation (which still does not exist). The paper concludes that, before aiming for a shared or joint planning process, both countries need to incorporate adaptive and precautionary management procedures into their planning systems and cooperation structures.

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“…Informal arrangements could lower these although they increase the gross transaction costs. As such, balancing between internal and border-crossing goals may place growing pressure on organizational capacities of local administrations and other local stakeholders, trust relations, and socio-cultural dimensions in cross-border governance (Leibenath, 2007).…”

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Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

Stoffelen

İoannides

Vanneste

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper aims to identify distinctive obstacles to the establishment of tourism destination governance in both transnational and within-country borderlands. Analysis of the German-Czech borderlands, a region also incorporating within-country borders between three German federal states, indicates the multi-scalar and political contestations of cross-border tourism collaboration. Local tourism projects are generally successful, both on a transnational German-Czech level and between the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. However, structural cross-border destination management does not exist because of (transnational) multi-scalar institutional alignment problems and (internal) tourism-specific destination-level power contestations. Understanding destination management processes in borderlands, therefore, requires: (i) explicit multi-scalar analysis; (ii) recognition of both transnational and within-country contexts; (iii) more cross-pollination between tourism planning and cross-border governance research.

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Europeanisation of Cross-border Governance? A Case Study on the Cause, Form and Consequences of a Co-operation Project in the German–Polish–Czech Border Triangle

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Transboundary cooperation in establishing ecological networks: The case of Germany's external borders

Transboundary cooperation in establishing ecological networks: The case of Germany's external borders

Drought planning and management in transboundary river basins: the case of the Iberian Guadiana

Obstacles to achieving cross-border tourism governance: A multi-scalar approach focusing on the German-Czech borderlands

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