Wang Biyue, Meng Meng, Meng Yanchun, Dominic Stead

Keywords： Spatial Rescaling; Soft Space; Environmental Governance; Transnational Governance; European Union

Abstract：

Spatial rescaling is arguably one of the most significant focuses in European planning. The increasingly transboundary nature of many spatial planning issues and development opportunities, particularly environmental issues, has led to changes in the spatial scales at which problems are solved and planning is implemented. Spatial rescaling often gives rise to a combination of changes, including shifts in powers to other layers of decisionmaking, the emergence of new geographical scales, the appearance of new actor constellations, and new forms of governance. This paper focuses on the environmental governance of the Baltic Sea region as the case study and examines the influence of the European transnational cooperation initiative on the spatial rescaling of the region. The research findings provide experience and lessons for China’s coordinated development and governance of crossborder regions.

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