Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia
The article is discussing both challenges and problems that emerge from the transformation of the regional structure in the border region between Italy and Slovenia in the period 1991-2015. In this period, Slovenia became first an independent state and a member of the EU and the Schengen space. All...
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2016-12-01
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| description | The article is discussing both challenges and problems that emerge from the transformation of the regional structure in the border region between Italy and Slovenia in the period 1991-2015. In this period, Slovenia became first an independent state and a member of the EU and the Schengen space. All these political geographical changes have deeply influenced regional development trends on both sides of the studied border region, providing new opportunities for cross-border cooperation and integration, but have also created new forms of territorial disparities and challenges to common spatial and social planning. The paper will provide an analysis of the statistical data and the related socio-economic transformation processes, discussing thus the various territorial variations and trends within the studied area. It will also present some comparative results of the recent author’s field research related to the people’s attitude towards border perception and cross-border functional co-dependence. As the studied case is showing, cross-border regionalism is not only a system of government, but also a system of ‘grass-rooted’ social and spatial (re)integration of borderlands. This process is closely related to the question of chancing territoriality, preserving on the one hand the regional control and on the other hand re-acting societal and territorial co-dependence and integration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ea57d66e752e470fa1fbcac1889268892022-12-22T01:22:00ZengCluj University PressRomanian Review of Regional Studies1841-15762016-12-01XII2312Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and SloveniaBUFON MILAN0Science and Research Centre (ZRS), Institute for Social Studies, Koper, SloveniaThe article is discussing both challenges and problems that emerge from the transformation of the regional structure in the border region between Italy and Slovenia in the period 1991-2015. In this period, Slovenia became first an independent state and a member of the EU and the Schengen space. All these political geographical changes have deeply influenced regional development trends on both sides of the studied border region, providing new opportunities for cross-border cooperation and integration, but have also created new forms of territorial disparities and challenges to common spatial and social planning. The paper will provide an analysis of the statistical data and the related socio-economic transformation processes, discussing thus the various territorial variations and trends within the studied area. It will also present some comparative results of the recent author’s field research related to the people’s attitude towards border perception and cross-border functional co-dependence. As the studied case is showing, cross-border regionalism is not only a system of government, but also a system of ‘grass-rooted’ social and spatial (re)integration of borderlands. This process is closely related to the question of chancing territoriality, preserving on the one hand the regional control and on the other hand re-acting societal and territorial co-dependence and integration.http://rrrs.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhive/Artpdf/v12n22016/RRRS12220161.pdfitalian-slovenian border regionregional developmentterritorial disparitiescross-border cohesion |
| spellingShingle | BUFON MILAN Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia Romanian Review of Regional Studies italian-slovenian border region regional development territorial disparities cross-border cohesion |
| title | Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia |
| title_full | Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia |
| title_fullStr | Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia |
| title_short | Regional Development and Territorial Disparities: The Case of the Border Region Between Italy and Slovenia |
| title_sort | regional development and territorial disparities the case of the border region between italy and slovenia |
| topic | italian-slovenian border region regional development territorial disparities cross-border cohesion |
| url | http://rrrs.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/arhive/Artpdf/v12n22016/RRRS12220161.pdf |
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