Implementation of the EU Community Initiative INTERREG III A at the Polish-German border An attempt at evaluation
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Markus Leibenath · Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak · Robert Knippschild
Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development Mind the Gaps!
With 12 Figures and 5 Tables
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Dr. Markus Leibenath Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Weberplatz 1 01217 Dresden Germany [email protected]
Dr. Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak PAN Warsaw Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization ul. Twarda 51/55 00-818 Warsaw Poland [email protected]
Dr. Robert Knippschild Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development Weberplatz 1 01217 Dresden Germany [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-540-79243-7
e-ISBN: 978-3-540-79244-4
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Preface
The relevance of borders is particularly high in Central Europe because hardly any other part of the world features a comparable density of sovereign states. While the number of states is continuously growing since the political watershed of 1990, a far-reaching process of integration and Europeanization is taking place – epitomized by successive rounds of enlarging the European Union. Parallel to these phenomena of bordering and rebordering, of separation and of integration, border regions undergo tremendous changes. The book explores the consequences of these processes for cross-border governance and spatial planning in Central Europe. The contributions are based on presentations given at an international workshop which was organized in Warsaw in the frame of the GermanPolish Year 2006 in Poland and in cooperation with spa-ce.net, the Network of Spatial Research and Planning Institutes in Central and Eastern Europe. The editors wish to thank the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden, for the supportive environment and the spirit of cooperation which made this event possible in the first place. The editors also thank the German Federal Ministry for Education and Science who co-financed the workshop. The editors are sincerely grateful to the
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