ERSA 2008 - CALL FOR PAPERS
www.liv.ac.uk/ersa2008
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CULTURE, COHESION AND COMPETITIVENESS: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
27-31 AUGUST 2008, Liverpool, UK
We are pleased to inform you that we have extended the deadline for submission of papers to 3 February 2008. You are warmly invited to submit abstracts on the ERSA Liverpool 2008 website.
For online abstract submission: ERSA 08 abstract submission
More about the conference:www.liv.ac.uk/ersa2008
We sincerely hope to meet many of you in Liverpool and apology for any cross posting,
Your sincerely,
Marie Hervo
ERSA Executive Director
European Regional Science Association
The programme will be organised around a variety of topics and include plenary sessions with lectures by distinguished keynote speakers, including Professor Ed Glaeser (Harvard). Papers are invited on topics that not only reflect the central theme, but also reflect other topics such as:
· Cultural regeneration and its evaluation
· Climate change and its implications for urban and regional development
· The evidence base for regional policy
· Regional analysis of enterprise formation, deformation and survival
· The development of air transport in European regions
· Labour mobility in the extended European Union
· The regenerative role of river basin management
· Spatial targeting and urban policy
· Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
· Local dimensions of sustainable development
· Globalisation and regional competitiveness
· Migration, diasporas and development
· Social segregation, poverty and space
· Rural and local development
· Dublin and Liverpool: two cities compared
· Cross-border cooperation and development
· Renewable energy: a regional development perspective
· Regeneration of urban districts: analysis, policy and evaluation
· The future for regional policy in Europe
· Public health and regional prosperity
· Spatial econometrics
· Long-term unemployment and lagging regions
· New technologies, innovation and space
· Public finance and regional development
· Sustainable development and regional economic strategies
· Spatial economic analysis
· Retail development and competitiveness
· Agglomeration, clusters and policy
· City and regional marketing
· Location of economic activities and people: new directions
· City and regional governance: the role of city regions
· Infrastructure, transport, mobility and communication
· Learning regions
· New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
In addition to the above, there will also be young scientists sessions.
Prospective participants should submit an abstract of up to two pages to the conference website, http://www.liverpool.ac.uk/ersa2008 by 03 February 2008. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent to authors by 29 February 2008 and the deadline for full paper submission is 30 April 2008.
Contact: ERSA2008@liverpool.ac.uk
Professor Peter Batey OR Sandra Robinson
Chair, LOC Congress Administration
Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3811 Tel: +44 [0]151 794 3118
pwjbatey@liverpool.ac.uk sandrob@liverpool.ac.uk
Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool,
The Gordon Stephenson Building,
74 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7ZQ, UK
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