EU ‘DEEP’ PERIPHERY: A CASE STUDY OF MOUNTAIN BORDERLANDS IN BULGARIA
Journal Title: Revue Roumaine de Géographie/Romanian Journal of Geography - Year 2016, Vol 60, Issue 1
Abstract
Geographic research and constant monitoring of EU periphery and its dynamics are necessary to identify and outline priority areas for regional development policy. This work proposes that “deep” periphery areas form where peripheries of a different geographic nature (physical, economic, political) and scale overlap. The investigation applies GIS-aided mapping and comparative scale analysis to the case study of Bulgaria to identify “deep” periphery areas and affirm that they are disproportionally situated in the mountain regions along the EU external borders. These study results suggest special regional development policy attention to such areas, among which adoption of a Mountain Sustainable Development Strategy for all mountains within the EU geographic space, and, in particular, a Southeast European Convention on Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions.
Authors and Affiliations
BOIAN KOULOV
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP164732
- DOI -
- Views 87
- Downloads 0
ANALYSE DE LA RÉGÉNÉRATION SPONTANÉE DE LA VÉGÉTATION POST-INCENDIE DANS LA FORET DE DAR CHICHOU (CAP BON, TUNISIE NORD-ORIENTALE)
Soil facies – a geographic local-regional completing of soil taxonomic units
LE TERRITOIRE, UN CONTENEUR DE SPECIFICITES LOCALES: MIS EN EVIDENCE PAR L’ANALYSE DU SYSTEME PRODUCTIF LOCAL DE KSAR-HELLAL (TUNISIE)
THE REORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE APUSENI MOUNTAINS
The reorganization of economic activities in the Apuseni Mountains presents several aspects of transition from the centralized economy of the communist period to the market economy after 1990, in a mining mountainous ar...
LE « SICKNESS COUNTRY » (PARC DE KAKADU, AUSTRALIE): ENTRE MYTHE, RÉALITÉ ET MISE EN VALEUR TOURISTIQUE