How do you see the World ?

Limits of Europe and other World divisions according to the ESPON community

ESPON 3.4.1. Europe in the World

Context

AIM of the 3.4.1. project :Propose an efficient regionalisation of the world

Key Question : delimitation of world regions

OUTPUT

WUTS

Survey

Analysis of indicators

Mental maps of

Organisations

Hypothesis

Drawing : A tricky exercise…

- Let us know things that you are not aware of- Let us know things you did not agree with

Identify “Strong” and “blurred” areas

Try to understand what build this common knowledge

- The “born in Europe” perspective- The “frequent traveler” perspective

The Survey

• How we get the data

- Preliminary Survey 1 : on the ESPON project 3.4.1 - January 2005 - Preliminary Survey 2 : on the ESPON lead partners - February 2005- Survey : ESPON seminar - May 2005

• How we compute the data- Simple univariate analysis- Bivariate analysis- Multivariate analysis

Our first question was : Who are you ???

Today we have the answer…

The typical ESPON member

A Man

Born in the seventies

German

Lives in its country of birth

Researcher

Not born in European Union

18 countries visited in Europe

4 countries visited outside Europe

The typical ESPON member

Our second question was : What are your limits of Europe ???

The question put some of you in a great trouble

The size of Europe

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EUROPE : The “core team” ???

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“Nearly Europe”

“Why not” countries

“Functional Europe”

“Far East frontier”

Could individual attribute explain the drawing of limits of Europe ?

• Men draw a larger Europe than women (α = 0.011)

• Geographical criteria => Larger Europe (α = 0.032)

• Few countries visited in the World => Larger Europe (α = 0.076)

Integration in Europe : a travel explanation ?

Our third question was : What are your divisions of the World ???

Some of you enjoy the exercise Some of you were reluctant

1st stage : Identification of “strong realities” : Europe and North America

1st stage : Identification of “strong realities” : Latin America

1st stage : Identification of “strong realities” : Africa

1st stage : Intermediates areas : Oceania

1st stage : Intermediates areas : Middle East & Central Asia

2nd stage : Intermediates areas North America

2nd stage : Intermediates areas Russia

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Central Asia

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Turkey

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Papua New Guinea

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Greenland

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Caucasus

3rd stage : “Shared” areas Central America

Beginning of a new stage ? China world and South & south east Asia

Limits and links

The Martyr Countries

The “Rest of the World”

Conclusion

It was interesting to see what you have in your mind

Those results will be used in order to

- Interpret world regions produced by other methodologies

- Prepare our argumentation to make our proposal of world regions more easily acceptable