Resources list
Entwicklungskonzept Oberes Moseltal (EOM)
The Upper Moselle Valley (EOM) development concept has initiated a cross-border and spatial development and planning process on the basis of a holistic, needs-oriented and participatory multi-level approach.
cross-border cooperationspatial planning, regional planningregional planningMulti-Level Approachbottom-up meets top-downLeaderInterreg PZ5housing and business developmentrural landscapenature protection and preservation of undeveloped areasmobilityMoselleSaarSûreRecompositions scalaires en Europe occidentale : la construction de régions métropolitaines transfrontalières dans l’Eurorégion Transmanche et le Rhin Supérieur
The objective of Pauline Pupier's thesis is to explain the political processes behind the creation of a metropolitan district straddling an internal border of the European Union.
bordermetropolitan districtrescalingGovernanceEuropean UnionGhost in the Genevan borderscape! On the symbolic significance of an ‘invisible’ border
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross-border regional context. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross-border cooperation in which the invisibilisation of the border in the spatial imaginaries is in fact a symbolisation strategy aimed at underlining its obsolete character.
Borderssymbolisationinvisibilizationborderscapecross-border cooperationLe codéveloppement dans l’aire métropolitaine transfrontalière du Luxembourg. Vers un modèle plus soutenable ?
The purpose of this Working Document is to fuel the debate on policy on cross-border cooperation between Luxembourg and the neighbouring regions by addressing the definition of a co-development policy.
cross-border cooperationmetropolitanisationcross-border workingCoopérationTerritorial developmentThe Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s): Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing
‘The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s)’ sets into relation U.S. imperial and Indigenous conceptions of territoriality as articulated in U.S. legal texts and Indigenous life writing in the 19th century.
US imperialismpostcoloial studiesTerritorialityjurisdictionsovereigntycritical legal studiesNative American studiesLife WritingAmerican studiesmodel of the westphalian nation-statejurisdictional incongruenceA Statute for Limburg? Exploring the legal and practical possibilities of interregional cross-border cooperation for the Dutch border province.
On 11 May 2017, the Provincial Council of Limburg (the region’s parliament) adopted a motion that aimed to establish a closer cooperation with the Walloon Region, Flanders and North Rhine Westphalia (NRW). The Province, in fact, wishes to obtain more discretion regarding cross-border cooperation. This report looks at the different options of improving the legal situation for cross-border cooperation and related governance questions.
Cross-border governancelegal instruments for cross-border cooperationEuropean Cross-Border Mechanism Benelux UnionCross-border mobility in times of COVID-19: Assessing COVID-19 Measures and their Effects on Cross-border Regions within the EU
The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the freedom of movement in the EU, especially problematic for cross-border regions. This report, written for DG SANTE in the context of EU-CITZEN, seeks to devote particular attention to the effects for border regions.
Cross-border mobilityFree movementBorder RegionsCOVID-19TravelEU lawUne approche empirique des initiatives d’aménagement transfrontalier du territoire en Europe
Based on an exhaustive analysis of the cooperation projects conducted as part of the Interreg IVA programme (2007-2013), this article helps to provide a clearer picture of the notion of cross-border territorial development and gives some examples of the results it can produce.
Territorial developmentBordersInterregcross-border cooperationCritical Dictionary on Borders, Cross-Border Cooperation and European Integration
Borders are a central issue of the European Union (EU): But how do we really understand the role of borders in European Integration and how does cross-border cooperation function in the different EU border regions? The dictionary presents its main players, their motives, objectives and tools.
Borderscross-border cooperationEuropean IntegrationEuropean Unionterritorial cooperationBorder studiesRegionalismEuropean Regional PolicyEuropean Neighbourhood PolicyLes travailleurs frontaliers lorrains
This article looks at cross-border workers living in Lorraine with a job in Luxembourg or Germany. It questions the role of cross-border working as a mode of job market regulation.
Cross-Border WorkersSaarLorLux Greater Regionlegal standardisationB/ordering the environmental commons
The article focuses on the governance of transboundary environmental commons while stressing how the interwoven processes of b/ordering and commoning change and shape geographies of conservation practices across borders.
Environmental governanceborders as processcommon pool resourcessustainabilitypolitics of scalecommunities of practiceconservationLa mobilité frontalière entre la France et la Belgique
This study was conducted as part of a collaboration between the French and Belgian public employment services, both of which are members of the EURES network, with a view to drawing up a cross-border action plan.
Franco-Belgian cross-border mobilityFranco-Belgian socio-economic profileemploymentvocational trainingcross-border cooperationUniGR-CBS Working Paper Vol.3: Territorial Science Echo: Beschäftigung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der Großregion: differenzierte Wirtschaftsentwicklung und Wirkungen der grenzüberschreitenden Beschäftigung/ Emploi et développement économique au se
This working paper presents the current research conclusions in the fields of employment, labour market and economic development in the Greater Region; it defines the inherent challenges for the territorial development of the Greater Region.
cross-border workLabour marketEconomyCommuterBorder dwellermobilitystructural mutationindustrial historyborderchallengesterritorial development of the Greater RegionVom processual shift zum complexity shift: Aktuelle analytische Trends in der Grenzforschung
The author sketches out, drawing on the theoretical and methodical developments of the last few decades in the area of border (area) research, how analytical concepts have been further developed, to systematically allow a more complex and more processual understanding of borders.
borderingBorder workborder texturesmultiplicityComplexityGrenze und Ästhetik: Repräsentationen von Grenzen in den kulturwissenschaftlichen Border Studies
The author explains the connection between borders and aesthetics based, first of all, on the idea of the border as a place where aesthetics are produced, secondly on the aesthetic representations of borders and finally on current conceptual and theoretical approaches to border aesthetics.
Aesthetic practicesborder literatureBorder studiesChicanos Studiesborder aesthetics