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With the increasing importance of renewable energies, far-reaching changes in energy production and sup-ply are taking place at the beginning of the 21st century. However, the transition follows different paths in different countries. This becomes especially visible in border regions. The paper aims to identify specific features of the energy transition(s) in two European border regions. With the help of Border Studies and a borderlands systematics, upheavals in energy production and related negotiation processes can be ana-lysed and classified. Our paper focuses on the border regions of SaarLorLux (Germany-France-Luxembourg) and Saxony-Lower Silesia (Germany-Poland). We classify the French nuclear power plant Cattenom on the border to Germany and Luxembourg and the Polish opencast mine Turów on the border to Germany and the Czech Republic as conflictual examples, while the hydrogen initiative Grande Region Hydrogen and the twin city of Görlitz-Zgorzelec can be considered interlinked areas. With the help of borderlands systematics light can be shed on comparable energy paths in the two border regions. This will also demonstrate the added value of the developed systematics.
The article outlines the debate revolving around the concept border, cross-border and multi-level govern-ance in political science and political geography. First, it discusses the interlinkage of the concepts of bor-der and the nation-state. Second, it presents the theoretical model of governance. Third, it differentiates the political science concept of multi-level governance and the concept cross-border governance from political geography. Finally, it sketches first empirical results from the research project „Linking Borderlands“ and links it to theory.
Digitale Pioniere in der ländlichen Regionalentwicklung: Empfehlungen für die regionale Governance
(2023)
Das BULE+/BMEL-Forschungsprojekt DigPion analysiert die Netzwerke und Kooperationsstrategien digitaler Vordenkerinnen und Vordenker im ländlichen Raum. Dazu wurden digitale Pionierinnen und Pioniere mit IKT-Kenntnissen in den Fallregionen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Baden-Württemberg identifiziert, die soziale Innovationen und regionale Entwicklung in ländlichen Regionen vorantreiben. Die Broschüre umfasst Handlungsempfehlungen für die regionale Governance, um eine nachhaltige räumliche Entwicklung in ländlichen Regionen zu fördern.
This article compares one emerging and three established regional development agencies in rural regions in Germany as examples of collaborative governance for socially innovative regional development. We ask, firstly, how an emergent collaborative regional governance network can be institutionalized in the long term based on participatory mechanisms on several levels as well as between actors with different goals and values. Secondly, how an organizationally thin, rural context influences the governance network in steering the social innovation promotion and what kind of development for whom do different governance networks mobilize. Research was conducted as a qualitative comparative case study with semi-structured expert interviews. The findings highlight that the institutionalization of collaborative governance is supported by funding and policies from upper scales and the model of regional development agency enhances the learning of collaborative governance between public institutions. However, the goal and beneficiaries of the development are mainly the classic economic actors, whereas transformative grassroots movements enhancing social innovation are largely ignored by public-driven collaborative governance.
The Russian war in Ukraine has caused an eruption in Europe regarding the import and production of energy. Depending on the strategy of the respective country, transition processes in favor of low-carbon energy are now perceived as accelerated; at the same time, the governments can also be perceived as a “decelerator” of independence processes from Russian energy sources. Due to diversification strategies in Europe, energy supply security is seen as threatened by winter 2022, which is why a re-transition of coal-generated electricity in coal regions is being debated. The coal regions studied in this contribution are located at the German-Polish border area, on the one hand, and at the French-Luxembourgian-German border ,on the other, and emblematically show different constructions of energy-related vulnerabilities and resilience, as well as the handling of un/certainties as a societal response after exogenous shocks, such as the war in Ukraine. In the framework of the project Energy Borderlands, we explore to what extent energy spaces develop in these particular border areas between global and European frameworks, nation-state policies and regional and local implementations. The analysis is based on discourses in regional newspapers of the respective study region, as well as social media and expert interviews. The combination of a discourse-analytical and a space-theoretical approach with border studies approaches enables a differentiation and a comparison of the borderlands and their spatial constructions as socio-material energy spaces with different degrees of interdependence.