scholarly journals Laying the Foundations for Cross-Border Cooperation in Marine Spatial Planning: The Case of the European Macaronesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (Vol Esp. 2) ◽  
pp. 225-252
Author(s):  
Víctor Cordero-Penín ◽  
María De Andrés ◽  
Javier García-Onetti ◽  
Cristina Pallero-Flores ◽  
Javier García-Sanabria
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Work Flow ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Specific Stage ◽  
Cooperation Scope ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Legal-administrative borders in the marine environment rarely coincide with the boundaries of marine ecosystems and their ecological processes. Thus, cooperation in the processes of marine spatial planning (MSP) across borders is essential to apply an ecosystem-based approach. This research analyzes the usefulness of the work flow undertaken to promote cross-border cooperation in MSP for the European Macaronesia. Given the vast extension of the sea basin, it is especially important to define the cooperation scope. The planning of cross-border cooperation initiatives must consider the capacity of the different competent authorities to progress in the MSP process as well as the specific stage that each of the parties involved is. The importance of ensuring the engagement of all competent authorities across all work phases has been confirmed, but it is highlighted the relevance of including those authorities competent in foreign affairs. It is recommended that cross-border cooperation efforts go beyond the process strictly related to spatial planning of the maritime sectors and are used as tools to overcome structural limitations and enhance the natural advantages derived from the island’s condition of insularity and outermost regions. Thus, the proposed work process has proven to be useful as a roadmap to promote cross-border cooperation adapted to the legal-administrative singularities and to respond to the physical-natural and socio-economic realities of the case study.

scholarly journals Marine Spatial Planning cross-border cooperation in the ‘European Macaronesia Ocean’: A participatory approach

Marine Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 104671
Author(s):  
Javier García-Sanabria ◽  
Javier García-Onetti ◽  
Víctor Cordero Penín ◽  
María de Andrés ◽  
Claudia Millán Caravaca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Governance, Planning, and Territorial Management

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.

scholarly journals Marine spatial planning in Barbuda: A social, ecological, geographic, and legal case study

Marine Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 103793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ◽  
William James McClintock ◽  
Ogden Burton ◽  
Wayde Burton ◽  
Andrew Estep ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Legal Case

scholarly journals ‘Rules of the game’ in cross-border cooperation: legal-administrative differences in Finnish–Russian crime prevention

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Liisa Heusala ◽  
Jarmo Koistinen
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The article illuminates the dynamics of bilateral cross-border cooperation between two vastly different legal-administrative partners. The analysis utilizes empirical findings of a case study on bilateral Finnish–Russian crime prevention cooperation. Currently, both the differences in national legislations and the fast-changing administrative environment make this cooperation challenging. The case study showed that bilateral cooperation, which is the dominant form of cooperation between EU member states and Russia, is currently affected by disjointed and even competing multilateral and bilateral structures, differences in criminal law and procedure, gaps between international treaties and national legislation, local and regional variations of practices, weak institutional trust and abrupt policy changes. The results indicate that the effectiveness of cross-border networks cannot be assessed strictly in terms of quantitative outcomes. Further long-term development of the cooperation requires both realistic understanding of legal-administrative constraints and strong commitment at the national and supranational political levels. Points for practitioners Future long-term development of cross-border crime prevention cooperation between EU member countries and the Russian Federation requires more flexible crime prevention instruments and institutionalization of joint investigation teams. The optimal model in joint criminal investigations with Russian authorities could be one where the evidence of the protocol of the preliminary investigation could be acquired through direct regional connections between authorities. In practice, this requires a much stronger practical trust between different levels of authorities in the EU member countries and the Russian Federation, reconciliation of differences in national legislations and long-term political commitment at the highest level.

Cross-Border Cooperation and Transformation of Regional Identities in the Ukrainian–Russian Borderlands: Towards a Euroregion “Slobozhanshchyna”? Part 2*

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Keyword(s):  
Border Region ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Let us now have a closer look at the Kharkiv-Belgorod (potential) cross-border region as a case study of Ukrainian-Russian cross-border cooperation. Not only is the case of Kharkiv-Belgorod special because of the historical and cultural specificity of the region, which provides additional symbolic resources for its “reinvention” as a borderland (this will be discussed in the last section of the paper); it also represents an interesting combination of (remaining) cultural closeness and (growing) social and economic differences between the two bordering territories; significantly, these two administrative units became the initiators of the cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and Russia and see themselves as pioneers whose experience can be used for the other parts of the border.

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