“Governance“ refers to all approaches to guide the society into the direction of certain objectives (above all concerning the society’s well-being). Due to complexity and multidimensionality of today’s societies the governance-term covers stakeholders from state, economy and civilian population just as well as from different hierarchic and vertical levels. Researchers within this field will be engaged with general issues relating to the steering of a sustainable development and with empirical studies relating to the steering of specific regions as the Tri-national Metropolitan Region.
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