This book presents different approaches to environmental governance, aiming to understand the roles of different stakeholders at different levels, which is a key issue in the field of environment and natural resources exploitation. Cet ouvrage présente différentes approches de la gouvernance environnementale, visant notamment à comprendre le rôle des acteurs à différentes échelles, ce qui constitue un enjeu essentiel dans l’exploitation de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles.

This volume focuses on how power relationships affect border integration in the fields of political cooperation (with specific focus on local government), spatial planning, language policies and practices and environmental management. While integration processes differ in each of these fields, the common thread that they share is that local power relationships affect integration in each of these arenas.