“Supply-side structural reform” (SSSR) has been the most important ongoing economic reform in China since 2015, but its important environmental health effects have not been properly assessed. The present study addresses that gap by focusing on reduction of overcapacity in the coal, steel, and iron sectors, combined with reduction of emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and projecting resultant effects on air quality and public health across cities and regions in China. Modeling results indicate that effects on air quality and public health are visible and distributed unevenly across the country. This assessment provides quantitative evidence supporting projections of the transregional distribution of such effects. Such uneven transregional distribution complicates management of air quality and health risks in China. The results challenge approaches that rely solely on cities to improve air quality. The article concludes with suggestions on how to integrate SSSR measures with cities' air quality improvement attainment planning and management performance evaluation

The diploma thesis "Discourse analysis of the "Sarrazin-Debatte": Analysis of the migration discourse in transregional daily newspaper in 2010"deals with the controversial "Sarrazin debate" and its impact on the migration discourse in 2010. After describing the process of the debate follows discourse analysis of four German transregional daily newspapers, which can be considered as representatives of a simple political spectrum from right to left wing. The goal of the analysis is to determine the thematic structure of the discourse and to define patterns of interpretation and statement of integration an immigrants.

L’objectif de ce travail de recherche est de démontrer qu’il existe de bonnes pratiques économiques et commerciales à adopter pour tout acteur souhaitant évoluer dans une relation entre la République populaire de Chine et les pays méditerranéens occidentaux. Afin de répondre aux attentes des parties-prenantes et de favoriser ainsi le développement économique territorial grâce au modèle proposé, ce travail de recherche met en avant, dans un premier temps, une analyse précise des échanges commerciaux et de la coopération économique entre la République populaire de Chine et les pays méditerranéens occidentaux désormais intégrés dans un contexte globalisé et mondialisé. Après cette étape d’observation, nous avons souhaité modéliser les processus liés au développement économique territorial à travers une grille de lecture issue de l’intégration transrégionale et centrée sur les relations entre la Chine et les pays méditerranéens occidentaux. C’est pourquoi notre question de recherche va tenter de démontrer quel est le modèle de développement économique territorial qui doit être mis en place entre la République populaire de Chine et les pays méditerranéens occidentaux dans une optique de posture de prospérité mutuelle « gagnante-gagnante »? Pour répondre à cette dernière, nous avons établi un modèle d’intégration transrégionale inspiré par la philosophie chinoise Yi Jing qui a pour avantage de prendre en compte tout autant le schéma de pensée occidental que la philosophie orientale dans ses approches. Cela permet de favoriser le développement économique territorial réciproque. / The objective of this research is to prove that good economical and commercial practices exist and that they can be adopted by any actor who aims to develop a relationship between the Popular Republic of China and the occidental mediterranean countries. In order to answer to the expectations of the stakeholders and thus to facilitate the economical and territorial development with the aid of the proposed model, this research work highlights, in a first step, a precise analysis of the commercial exchanges and the economical cooperation between the Popular Republic of China and the western mediterranean countries that are now integrated in a worldwide global context. After the observation step, we have wished to modelize the processes that are linked to the territorial economical development. We used a reading method which comes from the transregional integration and which is focused on the relations between China and the occidental mediterranean countries. This is the reason why our research question will try to prove which territorial and economical development model must be implemented between the Popular Republic of China and the occidental mediterranean countries in a vision of win-win mutual prosperity. In order to answer to this question, we have established a transregional integration model which is inspired by the Chinese philosophy Yi Jing. This philosophy has the advantage to take into account the western thinking scheme as well as the oriental philosophy. This allows the facilitation of the reciprocal territorial and economical development.

When Anna Katharina Elisabeth von der Leyen (1652-1738) married the margrave of Haraucourt in 1669, she became a member of one of the most ancient families of the duchy of Lorraine. As for all noblewomen of that time, this marriage would be the first step into a new life: Anna Katharina left the place where she had grown up, a tiny territory of the Holy Roman Empire, to join her husband in the German district of Lorraine – just across “the border” – where she would soon be exposed to war and officially become a subject of French King Louis XIV. Obviously, in order to fulfil expectations, Anna Katharina crossed both social and territorial borders. In Lorraine, she got strongly connected to a new family acting within a different aristocratic group and geographical, political and linguistic space. Did territorial borders matter to nobility before the rise of the nation-state? Or did noble families live a rather “borderless” life as by status and traditional habits, they travelled a lot more than the commonalty? The paper examines the von der Leyen, a rather overseen regional family of the Holy Roman Empire, by drawing special emphasis on their degree of cross-border activity towards Lorraine. On the basis of historical record drawn from the archives in Coblenz, I discuss the potential as well as the problems of a nobility-based analysis of early modern borders which includes a critical examination of the term “border region” for prenational contexts. The paper also explores recent attempts to historize borders in the early modern era which are strongly connected to the question of the actual practices of border crossing. In this regard, it argues for a small-scale analysis of “regional” families to get closer to the crossing and perceptions of early modern borders. The study also shows the importance of availability of historical record on which early modernists strongly depend as information on border perception is scarce in an era when national borders were yet to come.

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