Discussion Papers 2009.
Old and New Borderlines /Frontiers/ Margins
CENTRE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES
OF HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
DISCUSSION PAPERS
Special
OLD AND NEW
BORDERLINES/FRONTIERS/
MARGINS
East-Central European Regional Seminar
Gyula, 9–12 October, 2008
Editor
András Donát KOVÁCS
Series editor
Gábor LUX
Pécs
2009
Discussion Papers 2009.
Old and New Borderlines /Frontiers/ Margins
ISSN 0238–2008
ISBN 978 963 9899 17 9
© András Donát Kovács
© Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2009 by Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Technical editor: Ilona Csapó. Language editor: Gábor Lux.
Printed in Hungary by Sümegi Nyomdaipari, Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Ltd., Pécs
Discussion Papers 2009.
Old and New Borderlines /Frontiers/ Margins
CONTENTS
Preface
András Donát Kovács ..................................................................................................... 5
A brief essay on borders
Bálint Csatári ................................................................................................................. 7
REGIONAL ASPECTS AND COOPERATIONS
Geography of the Czech borderland
Antonin Vaishar – Jana Zapletalová ............................................................................ 15
Are environmental conditions among factors behind new spatial patterns?
Marek Degórski ............................................................................................................ 29
The regional structure and decentralisation of science in Central and Eastern
European countries
Gyula Horváth .............................................................................................................. 40
Regional planning and the co-operation in practice in Danube–Cris–Maros–Tisa
Euroregion
Gábor Nagy .................................................................................................................. 51
Changes in cooperation along the Hungarian and Slovak border
István Mezei .................................................................................................................. 60
Bulgarian–Greek cultural-historical tourism corridors
Maria Grozeva.............................................................................................................. 71
PROBLEMS AND NEW PROCESSES
Problems of border regions in Bulgaria
Chavdar Mladenov – Boris Kazakov ............................................................................ 81
Development of the new tourist space in the Polish Borderland
Marek Więckowski ........................................................................................................ 89
Changes and spatial differentiation in Polish agriculture
Roman Kulikowski ........................................................................................................ 98
Internal peripheries of socio-economic development in Poland
Konrad Ł. Czapiewski – Krzysztof Janc ..................................................................... 109
Some factors of development of the underdeveloped border communities
in Voivodina (Serbia)
Imre Nagy – Romelić Jovan ........................................................................................ 122
The territory of Dobra Szczecińska municipality as an example of conflict between
the functions of a border and suburban commune and an area of high natural value
Marcin Mazur ............................................................................................................. 132