scholarly journals PROCESS FOR MAPPING CHALLENGES OF CROSS-BORDER MOBILITY IN THE BARENTS REGION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Suoheimo
Keyword(s):  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region

scholarly journals Food System Digitalization as a Means to Promote Food and Nutrition Security in the Barents Region

Agriculture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dele Raheem ◽  
Maxim Shishaev ◽  
Vladimir Dikovitsky
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Food System ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Local Food System ◽  
Food And Nutrition Security ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Food And Nutrition

The consumption of food and its safety are important for human security. In this paper, we reviewed the literature on future possibilities for transforming the food system through digital solutions in the Barents region. Such digital solutions will make food business operators more efficient, sustainable, and transparent. Developing cross-border infrastructures for digitalization in the region will break the isolation of the local food system, thus simplifying the availability of processed, novel and safe traditional food products. It is necessary for food growers and processors to respond to the trends driven by consumers’ demand while ensuring their safety. Our review highlights the opportunities provided by digital technology to ensure safety and help food business operators predict consumer trends in the future. In addition, digitalization can create conditions that are necessary for the diversification of organizational schemes and the effective monitoring of food processing operations that will help to promote food and nutrition security in the Barents region.

Constructing Peripheral Cross-Border Regions in Planning: Territory—Network Interplay in the Barents Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 2718-2734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaj Zimmerbauer
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Region ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Spatial Symmetry ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Thick Region ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
Planning Discourse

This paper studies how supranational regions are built through the interplay of borders and networks. The focus is on how territory and network become manifest in planning, and in particular on the actual contexts in planning where the territorial discourse is emphasized. Conceptually, territory–network interplay is linked to recent discussions on relational/territorial space, multidimensionality of sociospatial relations, and thin and thick region building. The Barents Euro-Arctic Region is used here as an example, and the region's recent geoeconomic turn is studied first. The paper concludes that, despite geoeconomization, network is not dominant over territory as a key category in supranational region building. Although the contemporary (new) regionalist planning discourse emphasizes the institutionalization of network-oriented regional (economic) spaces without definitive boundaries, processes such as representing the region in branding or (re)defining who is eligible to join the official structures of cross-border cooperation entail a degree of territorial thinking and make use of the notions of boundedness and spatial symmetry. In planning practices networks commonly create the territory effect and vice versa. However, due to their different ontologies, network and territory can appear as separate or even contradictory discourses as well.

scholarly journals Transborder Cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents Regions: Optimization of Management through Comparative Sociological Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Olesia Benchak
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Barents Region ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The article is devoted to analysis of the peculiarities of transborder cooperation in the Carpathian and Barents regions and optimization of its management through comparative sociological analysis. The institutional capacity of managing transborder cooperation, in the Barents region of northern Europe, its focus on increasing human capital and reorienting to cluster development can serve as an example for the development of cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This is evidenced by the multifaceted activities of the Barents Euro-Arctic and Barents Regional Councils for the development of cooperation between the border regions and territorial communities, coordination of priorities and implementation of Barents Co-operation programs at the international, intergovernmental and interregional levels, synchronization of their activities in the Arctic region with EU institutions, cooperation leading international structures in Northern Europe, the Arctic and the Baltic. Such institutional experience in the Barents region indicates the feasibility and high potential impact of establishing a new multilateral international instrument for supporting cross-border cooperation in the Carpathian region. This experience should not be copied, but should be implemented taking into account the specifics of the Carpathian region. The author`s position on the methodological foundations of the sociological study of crossborder interactions as a differentiating and solidarizing factor is formulated. Perspective directions of research of cross-border interactions are seen first of all in: creation of international research collectives; elaboration and improvement of sociological tools for monitoring the state and dynamics of cross-border interactions; constructing a system of indicators that characterize the factors of micro, meso, macro and global levels that determine the content of cross-border interactions. The Ukrainian-Slovak, Ukrainian-Hungarian and Ukrainian-Romanian borders as a special space of social differentiation and integration remain extremely unexplored.

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