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Annual International Conference
2011
Regional development and policy
– challenges, choices and recipients
Sunday 17th –
Wednesday 20th April 2011: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
(Excursion, walking tour and evening
drinks reception Sunday 17th April)
For more information please go to:
http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2011/april-newcastle/register.pdf
Abstract submission deadline – 31st
January 2011
This conference will take place at the University of Newcastle
and the Civic Centre over four days in April 2011 and will include daily
plenary, workshop
and special roundtable sessions.
We welcome papers from all – academics, students and those
working in policy and practice. The event is inclusive and offers networking
opportunities for all in our field. The organisers welcome
proposals for special sessions, themed workshops and innovative forms of
networking and collaboration. If you would like to organise or offer a session
to the conference please contact Lisa Bibby-Larsen at
[log in to unmask] and
we will assist you.
The challenges for regional development are intensifying.
Long-term factors shaping the prospects for cities and regions include the
effects of climate
change and new demands on energy, water and food systems. Cities
also face significant demographic shifts. Rapid technological changes –
captured
in the notion of an emerging Knowledge Economy – will also
affect cities and regions. Moreover, we are witnessing significant changes in
international
political economy – encapsulated by the term globalisation
– but increasingly understood as incorporating the rise of new economic
powers, such as the
BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and, above all, China). The
immediate context for thinking about these questions in many parts of the world
is the aftermath of a severe economic crisis and a new politics of austerity.
Local, regional, national and international actors continue to
search for new policy solutions at a time when traditional forms of governance
are being
tested and new forms of regional politics are emerging. In many
parts of the world regional disparities are growing as more economic activity
becomes
concentrated in global city regions, posing questions about the
future of cities and regions beyond the metropolis. In these austere times,
some voices
question the
need for regional policy itself and public policy debates increasingly focus on
these dilemmas.
Gateway
themes:
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Climate change, resource pressures, environment and
sustainable regions
Gerd Lintz ([log in to unmask]), Peter Wirth ([log in to unmask]) and Andrew Beer ([log in to unmask])
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Labour markets, migration and regional development
Alessandra Faggian ([log in to unmask]), Mark Partridge
([log in to unmask]) and Anne Green
([log in to unmask])
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Inequality, diversity and regional development
Irene Hardill ([log in to unmask]),
Solange Villette ([log in to unmask])
and
Lionel Guillemot ([log in to unmask])
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Rurality/peripherality and regional development
Peter de Souza ([log in to unmask]) and Anne Lorentzen ([log in to unmask])
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Spatial econometrics
Vasillis Monastiriotis
([log in to unmask]) and Bernard Fingleton
([log in to unmask])
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Borders and border regions
Gianluca Spinaci ([log in to unmask]) and Nicola Bellini ([log in to unmask])
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Competitiveness, competition and cooperation
Gillian Bristow ([log in to unmask])
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New approaches to regional development policy
Arnoud Lagendijk ([log in to unmask]) and Pedro Marques ([log in to unmask])
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Social justice and regional development
Gordon Dabinett ([log in to unmask]) and Thilo Lang ([log in to unmask])
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The politics and governance of regional and territorial
development
Tassilo Herrschel ([log in to unmask])
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Regional identity and regionalism
Pavel Chromy ([log in to unmask])
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Financing the regions – current and future challenges
Martin Sokol ([log in to unmask]), Zoltan Gal
(galz@rkk,hu) and Ewald Engelen ([log in to unmask])
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Regional development and development management in a global
context
Ulrich Graute ([log in to unmask]) and Mikhail Dimitriev ([log in to unmask])
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Phoenix industries and innovation
Abdel-Illah Hamdouch ([log in to unmask]), Stuart Dawley ([log in to unmask])
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Enterprise, entrepreneurship and learning in resilient
regions
Mark Hart ([log in to unmask]), Roel Rutten ([log in to unmask]), Helena Lenihan
([log in to unmask])
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Creative Industries and regional development
Caroline Chapain ([log in to unmask], Roberta
Comunian ([log in to unmask]),
Nick Clifton ([log in to unmask])
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Cultural and experiential economies
Lisa de Propris ([log in to unmask]), Anne Lorentzen ([log in to unmask]), Olivier Crevoisier ([log in to unmask])
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Communities, civil society and the role of education and the
quadruple helix of regional development
Oto Potluka ([log in to unmask]) and Peter McGregor ([log in to unmask])
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EU Policy and practice
John Bachtler ([log in to unmask]) and
Phil McCann ([log in to unmask])
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Territorial Cooperation
Kai Boehme ([log in to unmask]) and Thiemo Eser ([log in to unmask])
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Spatial planning
Krisztina Varró ([log in to unmask]) and Alasdair Rae ([log in to unmask])
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Place leadership
Markku Sotarauta ([log in to unmask]) and John Gibney ([log in to unmask])
For more information please go to:
http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2011/april-newcastle/register.pdf
With very kind regards
Lisa Bibby-Larsen
Conference Officer
Regional
Studies Association
PO Box 2058
Seaford BN25 4QU
tel: 0044 (0)
1323 899 698
fax: 0044 (0)
1323 899 798
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