transboundary issues
Towards a regional transboundary approach
When functional problems go beyond the institutional space of political action, public policies' ability to respond to collective problems is weakened. In the face of this, regional approaches appear at the domestic and at the transboundary levels. Through the analysis of the Canton of Geneva's land use planning public policy - from an inward-...
The Alpine Convention is a prime example of transboundary collaboration as discussed thus far during the conference. It is the first international convention to cover such a large land mass area, dealing with diverse issues covering both natural and human elements of conservation and development. The author offers a brief introduction into the topic, giving a bit of the history behind this...
More than a hundred years ago, when the organisation of the Friends of Nature was founded in Vienna in 1895, the first programmes they offered were trips and excursions to the Alps. Meanwhile the organization has grown into an international movement with over 600,000 members; almost 1,000 houses and mountain huts were built, thousands of kilometres of hiking and mountain paths are being...
During the last few years, the mountains have acquired a special relevance for several reasons, one reason for this was that in 1975 the experts in natural resource management and national or Central-American politicians realized that the last significant forests blocks were located mostly in the middle of the mountains.
In addition to that, those forests were...
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