Dear Colleagues, I would like to inform you that the abstract submission deadline for CDES Innsbruck Conference extended to 17 APRIL 2018. Please submit your abstracts to the IGU CDES INNSBRUCK 2018 MINI-CONFERENCE on _"__Rural-Urban Linkages for Sustainable Development: An Economic Geography Perspective_” which will be held under the auspices of the "IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces" (CDES) in Innsbruck, Austria during 19-21 July, 2018. The IGU CDES has a strong record of publishing from its conferences. Papers presented will be invited for peer review and subsequent publication in a special issue of _Die Erde__ - Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, the world's longest-running scientific journal in Geography __and_ an edited book by CDES's _Routledge Dynamics of Economic Space Book Series_ (http://igu-cdes.ankara.edu.tr/) soon after the conference. Presenters who are interested are invited to submit a full paper until 30/06/2018. For more information about the conference please check the conference website: https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/igu-rural-urban-linkages/ and if you have any questions regarding the conference, please ask Armin Kratzer ([log in to unmask]) who is the local organizer of the conference from University of Innsbruck. I look forward to seeing you in Innsbruck. Best regards, Nuri Yavan Chair of the IGU CDES -- ------------------------------- Doç.Dr. Nuri Yavan Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Coğrafya Bölümü 06100 Sıhhiye Ankara Tel: 0 312 3103280 / 1212 Fax: 0 312 3105713 E-posta: [log in to unmask] Web: http:[log in to unmask]°er=1 Nuri Yavan, Ph.D. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Ankara University Department of Geography 06100 Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 312 3103280 Ext. 1212 Fax: +90 312 3105713 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http:[log in to unmask]°er=2