Theme & Program
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- Congress Main Theme & Types of Sessions
- Full list of Themes
- Special Sessions
- Information on the Program Structure
- Information about Keynote Speakers & Special Round Table
- Presentation Tips
Congress Main Theme & Types of Sessions
1. CONGRESS THEME:
The main theme of the Congress is Sustainable Regional Growth and Development in the Creative Knowledge Economy. This theme encompasses and reflects wider European concerns about regional growth and development in an era of globalisation and increased environmental awareness, expressed not least in the Lisbon Agenda. Besides the main theme, the congress is open for all issues concerning regional problems. A broad range of topics are listed among the themes below.
2. TYPES OF SESSIONS:
1- Refereed R-session Papers addressed to these sessions will be refereed by the theme convenors for each thematic topic. The deadline for the full paper submission for R-sessions is 14th April 2010.
2 - Refereed Y-session Papers are for Young Scientists. For these sessions, all coauthors of the paper should be younger than 33 years old on September 1st 2010. The full papers will be refereed by the convenor of the Young Scientists’ Sessions. All authors will compete for the Epainos Award, which is awarded to the best paper presented in these sessions. The deadline for submission of the full paper for Y-sessions is 14th April 2010.
3 - Ordinary O-session Papers addressed to these sessions are not refereed, but they will be included in the Conference USB stick/pen drive, unless the authors choose otherwise. The deadline for the full paper submission, if it is to be included in the USB stick/pen drive, is 18th June 2010.
4 - Special S-session Papers for these special sessions may be refereed by the special session organiser, if he/she decides to do so. The deadlines for abstract and/or final paper submissions are also determined by each special session organiser.
ERSA 2010 Congress Themes
- A.Regional Science epistemology and pedagogy
- B. Sustainability issues in regional development
- C. Regional aspects of the knowledge economy
- D. Regional economic modeling and spatial econometrics
- E. Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
- F. CGE-modeling in space
- G. Location studies
- H. Gender aspects of regional development
- I. Regional health and welfare issues
- J. Globalization and regional competitiveness
- K. Infrastructure, transports and communications
- L. Regional economic growth and development
- M. Problems and prospects of European integration
- N. Cross-border cooperation and development
- O. Urban-rural relationships
- P. Regional and urban policy, planning and governance
- Q. Land use, real estate and housing markets
- R. Social capital and regional development
- S. Rural and local development
- T. Tourism and regional development
- U. Innovation and regional development
- V. Entrepreneurship and regional development
- W. Labour markets and demography
- X. Social segregation, poverty and social policy
- Y. Territorial cohesion and regional development
- Z. Clusters – actors, processes and performance
- ZA. Evolutionary economic geography
Special Sessions
Hereunder is a list of all the Special Sessions -and their convenors- that will be held at the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International in Jönköping, Sweden.
Program overview
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Keynote Speakers & Special Round Table
We have the pleasure to announce the participation of the following Keynote Speakers in the 50th Anniversary European Congress of the Regional Science Association International in Jönköping, Sweden.
Prof. Annalee SAXENIAN
Prof. William STRANGE
Moreover, a Special Round Table Session will be organised with
Prof. Paul KRUGMAN
Prof. Masahisa FUJITA
Prof. Anthony J. VENABLES
and Prof. Jacques THISSE will be leading the discussion.
- Biography:
Jacques Thisse, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Regional Science Association International, is professor of economics and regional science at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a member of CORE. His main fields of interest are in location theory, economic geography, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 150 papers in various scientific journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, Mathematics of Operations Research, Geographical Analysis and Journal of Economic Geography. He has held a full professorship at the Sorbonne (France) and has been visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA). He is the co-author of Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation (MIT Press), Economics of Agglomeration (Cambridge University Press) and Economic Geography (Princeton University Press). He is member of the Paris School of Economics and a Fellow of CEPR.
Prof. Peter BATEY - Celebrating Plenary Lecture
Peter Batey has been Lever Professor of Town and Regional Planning in the Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool since 1989. He holds degrees in Geography (BSc Sheffield), Planning (MCD Liverpool) and Regional Science (PhD Liverpool) and is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (FRTPI). Earlier in his career he worked as a professional planner in two local authorities in North West England. He spent 1981-82 as a Fulbright Scholar in the Regional Science Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Peter has been an active figure in the regional science community for nearly forty years, notably as the organiser of three ERSA Congresses (London, 1979; Cambridge, 1989; and Liverpool, 2008). He was a founder member of the European Organising Committee. He was Editor of the European volumes of Papers in Regional Science (1978-85) and chaired the Epainos Prize jury from 1999-2004. In 1997-98 Peter served as World President of RSAI. He was elected a Fellow of RSAI in 2006 and an honorary member of the Japan Section in 2008.
Peter’s research has been in the fields of planning methods, geodemographics and demographic-economic modelling. He has almost 120 publications to his name. Peter maintains a high profile in urban and regional affairs, currently serving as government-appointed independent chairman of the Mersey Basin Campaign (2004-10) and as a member of the North West Regional Economic Forecasting Panel. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2000. He serves as an Editor of the Town Planning Review.
Prof. Philip McCANN
Special Session: "The Swedish School of Regional Science".
