Cross Border Regions

A Methodology for understanding Cascadia???

CBR a new way of understanding and exploring cross border management???

Cross Border Region [CBR]

• The era of the Cross Border Region [CBR] has arrived, where the CBR is defined to be …" a territorial unit that comprises contiguous sub-national units…" [Perkmann and Sum, 2002,3].

New Natural Unit

• the national scale as the "natural" unit for planning, policy and decision making has changed as the supra national organization and the CBR at opposite ends of the spectrum have begun to supplement and also compliment it [Leresche and Saez, 2002].

Era of Multiple Scales

• …"relativization of scale" [Jessop, 2002, 25].

• Economic, political, social, and even environmental relations are no longer controlled solely at the national scale; instead a proliferation of scales has emerged

• causing governance to migrate to the scale most appropriate to the issues.

Multiplicity of Overlapping Scales

• . Rather than decisions being made based on a "topocratic" logic [a logic based on an authority in a single defined stable territory]

• Multiterritorial "adhocratic" logic has emerged

• “Adhocratic logics are based on reference territories of variable geometry, with vague and multiple boundaries that change according to scale on which problems are treated" [Leresche and Saez ,2002, 95].

Changed Institutional Logics

• Traditional affiliation logic related to identity with the traditional political territory

• Newly emerging efficiency based network or functional logic which can emerge from and/or helps create the CBR

Result: "multilevel governance and problem solving".

• new rubric the old national scale is not simply replaced or usurped by a new scale but instead coexists with a variety of new scales

• In a similar fashion, the new functional logic augments the affiliation logic in issues that can be "multiterritorial, multisectoral, and multi-institutional".

Adhocratic

• The problem helps define the scale(s) at which it will be dealt,

• Not simply the scale that defines and dictates the solution to the problem as the old national topocratic method had done.