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The quest for the Femernbelt Region
WHAT and WHERE is the Femernbelt Region?
… and how does it matter?
Dirk Keil, Roskilde University, Institute for Society and Globalisation
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Contend
Background
Puzzle
Where is the Femernbelt Region?
What is the Femernbelt Region?
How does it matter?
One problem
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Signing of bilateral treaty regarding the Femernbelt Link in 2008: German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee and the Danish Minister of Transport, Carina Christensen
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2 overlapping projects
The common cross-border Femernbelt Region
The traffic axis Hamburg – Copenhagen/Malmö incl. the permanent Femernbelt link
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Hamburg Region Copenhage
n& Malmö
Transit-
region in-between
Hamburg Region
Copenhagen& Malmö
Femernbelt Region
(INTERREG programme
area)
Peripheral areas both sides the Femern Belt between HH & CPH/M
★ the fear: becoming a transit region only★ the target: becoming a growing destination-region by joining into a common cross-border region & by profiting from the future Femernbelt traffic axis
(bringing former periphery into a central position)★ the challenge: building this new common region
andachieving cross-border
regional cohesion
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The new region – centre of the axis
2020
Copenhagen& Malmö
Hamburg
Ferry
Central Europe Scandinavia
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THE PUZZLE …
?
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Illustration: Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-1859),fra H.C. Andersens "Eventyr og historier". Jubilæumsudgave for danske børn 1905.
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The new cross-border region
A socially constructed region
A new type of region
Only few common denominators
The region still remains abstract (many words but not much matter)
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Basic assumption
How to foster such a region and make it manifest?
It needs:
Cross-border cohesion
Tangibility
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Question
How do the regions key-actors operate and co-operate in order to achieve cross-border cohesion and tangibility for the new region?
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What region are we talking about?
WHAT and WHERE is the Femernbelt Region,
… and how does it matter?
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Question 1: The territory of the region
SMALL Femernbelt Region (INTERREG programme area)
…. a GREATER Femernbelt Region (incl. Hamburg area & Copenhagen/Malmö area)
… or even larger? (incl. South Sweden & North Germany)
WHERE is the Femernbelt Region?
Hamburg Region Copenhage
n & Malmö
Femernbelt Region
(INTERREG programme
area)
G r e a t e r F e m e r n b e l t R e g i o n
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… furthermore: overlapping regions
Hamburg Region Copenhage
n & Malmö
Femernbelt
Ø r e s u n d r e g i on
Schleswig-Holstein
Zealand Skåne
Fe m e r n b e l t R e g i o n I N T E R R E G
STR ING
… furthermore South Baltic programme area and Baltic Sea Region
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Question 2: The kind of region
Territorial region is problematic,therefore Region defined by function
Spaces of flow
Network region
How tangible is a functional region?
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Focus of my research study:
The SMALL Femernbelt Region:
a region in-between the metropolitan areas
a region mainly based on functions
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WHAT and WHERE is the Femernbelt Region,
… and how does it matter?
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Where is the key-actors focus?
One term applied to a variety of different concepts
courses confusion: one does not know what is meant
Term itself becomes
diffuse and obscure
devaluated
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Needed:
common understanding
Missing:
common understanding
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Finding out next:
How do the regions key-actors address this problem?
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Thank you for your attention.
Dirk Keil, PhD-FellowRoskilde University,Institute for Society and Globalisation
Presentation – BeltScience, November 2011
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