ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues for a comprehensive conceptual and practical link between writings on boundaries and reflections on nature. It explores how critical geopolitical approaches to boundaries and social approaches to nature could be used to shed light on each other, ultimately pointing towards fruitful future avenues for research. The book discusses explicitly drew the two threads of literature together, suggesting that transboundary protected areas were unique examples through which to introduce the 'political' into discourses of 'nature'. It dealt with the differing uses that were made of both biophysical and societal arguments in constructing space. The book also discusses how the limits of a spatial project or spatial ideal were defined by boundaries. It presents 'territoriality' or 'territorialisation', all the while largely avoiding the use of the term 'territory', preferring the term 'spatial entity' to 'territorial entity'.