Governing the mountains

Since roughly the late 1980s, the political and economic regulation in Europe has

moved progressively from state-centred government to governance based on

multiple partnerships across the public-private divide, and bringing together

both governmental and non-governmental organizations. This trend is reflected

empirically in the proliferation of projects directed at local and regional

development across various territorial scales ( Jessop 2002: 43). Among such

projects are the many processes of regionalization, in which new transterritorial

and international mechanisms of governance are created through political and

economic networking (e.g. Delli Zotti 1996; E´ger and Langer 1996; Perkmann

and Sum 2002).