EU-ERWEITERUNG IN KRISENZEITEN? ZUR BEITRITTSREIFE DER BEITRITTSKANDIDATEN VOM WESTBALKAN (EU Enlargement in Times of Crisis? Readiness for Accession of the Western Balkan Candidate Countries)

In recent years, nature-based solutions have been increasingly promoted as a climate change adaptation instrument, strongly advocated to be co-created. Achieving clear, coherent, and ambitious urban greening strategies, embedded in urban planning and developed in a co-creative, participatory and inclusive manner, is highly challenging within the EU enlargement context. In this article, such challenges are studied through two recent urban development initiatives in Belgrade, the Capital of Serbia: the first initiative focuses on planning the new Linear Park, within the framework of the CLEVER Cities Horizon 2020 project; the second initiative envisages the transformation of the privatised Avala Film Complex in the Košutnjak Urban Forest, primarily led by private interests but supported by the local authorities. The multiple-case study research method is applied, with an exploratory purpose and as a basis for potential future research on evaluation of co-creation processes for NBS implementation. The theoretical basis of this article is founded in the research on sustainability transitions, focusing on multi-level perspective (MLP) framework. The urban planning system in Belgrade and Serbia is observed as a socio-technical regime of the MLP. In such framework, we recognize co-creative planning of the Linear Park as a niche innovation. We interpret opposition towards planning of the Avala Film Complex as escalation, or an extreme element of the socio-technical landscape, comprised of civic unrests and political tensions on one side, combined with the climate crisis and excessive pollution on the other side. Moreover, the article examines informal urban planning instruments that can be implemented by the practitioners of niche innovations, that could support urban planners and NBS advocates in the Serbian and EU enlargement contexts to face the challenges of motivating all stakeholders to proactively, constructively and appropriately engage in co-creation.

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EU enlargement and monetary regimes from the insurance model perspective

Post-Communist Economies ◽

10.1080/14631377.2011.622563 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 433-447 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Nikolay Nenovsky ◽

Patrick Villieu

Keyword(s):

Eu Enlargement ◽

Monetary Regimes ◽

Insurance Model

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What drives crisis readiness? An assessment of managers in the United States: The effects of market turbulence, perceived likelihood of a crisis, small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises and innovative capacity

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management ◽

10.1111/1468-5973.12350 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

John A. Parnell ◽

William “Rick” Crandall

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Market Turbulence ◽

Innovative Capacity ◽

Crisis Readiness

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The Berlin Process. Bringing the Western Balkan Region Closer to the European Union

Südosteuropa ◽

10.1515/soeu-2020-0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Christina Griessler

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Eu Enlargement ◽

The Political ◽

The European Union ◽

Western Balkans ◽

Political Activities ◽

New Energy ◽

Western Balkan Region ◽

Slow Progress ◽

Proactive Measures

AbstractFor the countries of the Western Balkans, the path to membership in the European Union (EU) has been particularly tortuous. Its slow progress has created frustration among applicant countries. In 2014 Germany, stepping into the political void that had formed, inaugurated what has come to be known as the Berlin Process, an initiative aimed at injecting new energy into the dormant EU enlargement process. The author examines the political activities initiated between 2014 and 2019, analysing the official documentation of the Berlin Process along with publications such as policy papers and media commentaries. She concludes that although meaningful and proactive measures have been taken, such efforts have not been successful in persuading or enabling the Western Balkan states to implement the political and economic reforms required for EU accession.

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