Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries

Cunningham, Hilary

doi:10.1002/9781118255223.ch21

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“…The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig immediately affected Louisiana and Florida, but as the slick entered the Loop Current and then the Gulf Stream it also seriously threatened other coastal areas in Cuba, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard of the USA (Cunningham, 2012). This example shows that economically created environmental problems in one country can have an impact on the environment of several different countries.…”

Section: Border-related Planning Challengesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The economic -biophysical boundary relationship: Increased economic activity (brought about by globalisation) may result in increased environmental degradation as Cunningham (2012) has explained using the example of the Gulf oil spill caused by BP in April 2010. The explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig immediately affected Louisiana and Florida, but as the slick entered the Loop Current and then the Gulf Stream it also seriously threatened other coastal areas in Cuba, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and the Atlantic Seaboard of the USA (Cunningham, 2012).…”

Section: Border-related Planning Challengesmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Decoding borders. Appreciating border impacts on space and people

Haselsberger¹

2014

Planning Theory & Practice

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In our globalised, interconnected world the impact of borders on space and people is increasingly debated. This article aims to unpack the complex concept of "thick" and "thin" borders. It builds on the assumption that borders are boundary sets comprised of overlapping geopolitical, sociocultural, economic and biophysical layers and are the outcome of a bordering process. A two-step approach towards the decoding of borders is introduced. Using a planning perspective, the article seeks to explain the various functions of borders, to examine power practices within the bordering process and to ascertain the relational geographies demarcated by different types of boundaries. It illustrates why those cross-border activities which address only the geopolitical dimension of the border tend to fail.

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Section: Border-related Planning Challengesmentioning

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Section: Border-related Planning Challengesmentioning

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Decoding borders. Appreciating border impacts on space and people

Haselsberger¹

2014

Planning Theory & Practice

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“…The land has a very steep land structure with various altitudes (from 400 natural characteristics (Teksoz et al,20 Peace Parks also provide opportunities to improve the nations', countries ', and communities' in the conservation and managements of cross border lands. The creation of these parks benefits other participants as well (Cunningham, 2012, Laverty, 200772 This article aims to investigate the cooperation between Turkey and Georgia b Since early 2000th, World Wild Fund for Nature develops concept for establishing Georgia transboundary cooperation for sustainable resource use and biodiversity conservation. From Georgian side, (Machakhel in Turkish) is considered as the key area for development of transboundary activities.…”

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“…The creation of these parks benefits other participants as well (Cunningham, 2012, Laverty, 200772 This article aims to investigate the cooperation between Turkey and Georgia b Since early 2000th, World Wild Fund for Nature develops concept for establishing Georgia transboundary cooperation for sustainable resource use and biodiversity conservation. From Georgian side, Machakhela river valley (Machakhel in Turkish) is considered as the key area for development of transboundary activities.…”

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Creating Peace Park Between Turkey and Georgia

Pouya¹

2017

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“…However extensive these processes, the production of state nature is beset by material overflows which elude and thereby limit acts of sovereign authority (Whitehead, Jones, and Jones 2007, 15-16;Cunningham 2012); thus, transboundary water flows give biophysical permeability to geopolitical borders, circumscribing efforts by states to assert permanent sovereignty over hydrological resources.…”

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Fluid Sovereignty: State–Nature Relations in the Hasbani Basin, Southern Lebanon

Mason

Khawlie

2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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The concept of fluid sovereignty denotes configurations of state authority in which flows of living and non-living things, within and across borders, render insecure claims of unconditional territorial control. Loss of monopoly control of the means of violence within a territory conventionally signals weak political sovereignty. Bordering Israel (including the occupied Golan Heights) and Syria, the Hasbani Basin, southern Lebanon, seems to exemplify such sovereign failings: over decades, rival security providers have provoked political instability and conflict in the region. However, fluid sovereignty brings to the fore state-nature relations neglected in scholarship on "fragile" or "failing" states. Informed by geographical work on hybrid sovereignties and vital materialism, we show how sovereign claims over the Hasbani Basin extend to (sub)terranean water sources and rainfall-dependent agricultural lands, both of which are deeply securitized. Incomplete centralization and territorialization by Lebanon of the Hasbani Basin evinces fractured state nature-the inability of the state to realize volumetric control of, and authority over, basin waters. This state nature is coproduced by the fluid materiality of the waters themselves, whose hydroclimatic circulation and contingencies are at odds with territorial designs for volumetric control. For rural communities in the Hasbani Basin economically dependent on access to agricultural water, field research reveals a practical experience of fluid sovereignty, both in adapting to water variability and also navigating use of agricultural borderlands subject to conflict-related dangers. Recent conflict spillovers from the Syrian war have reinforced, for the majority Druze population, the low legitimacy of Lebanese state nature.

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Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries

Cited by 41 publications

References 22 publications

Decoding borders. Appreciating border impacts on space and people

Decoding borders. Appreciating border impacts on space and people

Creating Peace Park Between Turkey and Georgia

Fluid Sovereignty: State–Nature Relations in the Hasbani Basin, Southern Lebanon

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