ERSA CONGRESS 2012: REGIONS IN MOTION - BREAKING THE PATH

Background:

The annual conference of the European Regional Science Association is organising the 2012 conference in Bratislava, the topic is  "Regions in motion", which is most appropriate to the WB Countries. The conference will take place from August 21 to 25, 2012. The main theme of the Congress is "Regions in Motion - Breaking the path"

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:

  • A. Agglomeration and clusters
  • B. Climate change and Environment, sustainability issues
  • C. Demography and population
  • D. Entrepreneurship, networks and innovation
  • E. Finance and regional development
  • F. Globalisation and regional competitiveness
  • G. Housing markets, land use and real estate
  • H. Infrastructure, Transport and Communications
  • I. Knowledge economy and Innovation
  • J. Learning regions and social capital
  • K. Migration and regional labour market
  • L. New frontiers in regional science: Theory and Methodology
  • M. Peripheral and rural regions
  • N. Regional strategies and policies
  • O. Spatial Econometrics and analysis
  • P. Tourism, cultural and creative industries and regional development
  • Q. Urban economy
  • R. Location theory and studies

Types of  Sessions for 2012:

  1- Refereed R-session Papers addressed to these sessions will be refereed by the theme convenors for each thematic topic. .
  2 - Refereed Y-session Papers are for Young Scientists. For these sessions, all coauthors of the paper should be less than 33 years old on
  25th August 2012. 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. .
  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.
  4 - Special S-session Papers for these special sessions may be refereed by the special session organiser, if he/she decides to do so.


Deadline: 21 August 2012

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