Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) is a tropical tree crop cultivated for the industrial production of
latex. The trees are tall, perennial and long-lived, and are typically grown in plantations. In …

The present paper explores the unresolved issue in regional planning of whether small-and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) benefit from being located in border regions in terms of …

This paper estimates the impacts of opening of borders and intensity of cross-border
cooperation (CBC) on regional growth across European border regions. The difference-in …

Being in the sphere of influence of other cities can have benefits as it allows cities to “borrow
size,” but this can also lead to competition effects known as “agglomeration shadows.” This …

There are several obstacles to establish tourism governance policies in a border area and to
improve the conceptualization of tourism in border territories transcending the transnational …

The objective of this article is to investigate cross-border real economic convergence,
defined as the process of reducing the asymmetry of the economic development of cross …

For more than six decades, the European Union (EU) has promoted, one way or the other,
systematic European territorial integration, understood as the process of reducing many …

Given the sheer number of cross-border regions (CBRs) within the EU, their socio-economic
importance has been recognized both by policy-makers and academics. Recently, the novel …

This research supports the evolution of border studies by advancing recently elaborated
theoretical insights convincingly captured as borders in motion and the multiscalar nature of …

Land speculation that occurs on the urban border can be very problematic to the healthy
development of cities—critical to economic growth. Speculative land investors, concerned …