The conference includes a number of themes where delegates can submit their abstract of 400-800 words via our website.
Conference themes:
- Regional policy and evaluation
- Regions as innovation hubs?
- Labour markets, employability, worklessness and migration
- Spatial planning, cities and regions
- City regions, governance and democracy
- Tourism, innovation and local development
- Experience economy and spatial strategies
- Regional and local identity: culture and imagination
- Economic restructuring
- Local and regional economic development
- Liveability and environmental quality in local and regional development strategies
- Territorial politics, regionalism and federalism
- Social inequality, health and well-being – regional perspectives
- Mobilities and connectivities – drivers for change
- Non-urban issues – rurality and peripherality and island development
Plenary speakers to include:
- Danuta Hubner, European Commission
- Professor Liu Shiqing, West Development Research Centre, PRC
- Truman Packard, World Bank
- Professor Frank Moulaert, KU Leuven
- Mikel Landabasso, European Commission
- Professor Andres Rodrigues-Pose, LSE
The call for papers can be found on the Regional Studies Association website, where you can also submit an abstract and register for the event.
