Eco-frontier in the mountainous borderlands of Central Europe
Areas along national borders can be peripheral from a socio-economic standpoint, but may contain valuable natural landscapes, bearing more limited signs of human influence. This article therefore examines the concept of the “eco-frontier” (Guyot 2011) in borderlands, focusing on the manner in which...
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Journal of Alpine research|Revue de géographie alpine
2013
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Samenvatting: | Areas along national borders can be peripheral from a socio-economic standpoint, but may contain valuable natural landscapes, bearing more limited signs of human influence. This article therefore examines the concept of the “eco-frontier” (Guyot 2011) in borderlands, focusing on the manner in which protected areas, especially National Parks, were established and have been operated to preserve certain aspects of the frontier dynamics of borderlands. Analysed to that end is the ecological terr... |
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