Border

We can look at borders from a great variety of geographical, socio-economic and cultural angles. In this text, we focus on geographical borders, and we see that they can mean different things. For example, a country’s border marks the end of its territory, but there are other types of borders, like those created by nature like mountains or rivers; or these where the way land is used changes. In our text we explore how borders affect control and cooperation, and how they impact upon the people living in the surrounding border- lands. We provide an example by examining how natural resources are managed in the border area between senegal and the Gambia.