[phd.students.socioeco] CfA: Regional Studies Association 2017 in Dublin

[Ann Hartell]

"A ‘Great Regional Awakening’ is underway. There is a growing 
realisation that regional inequalities have both contributed to, and 
amplified, the ‘Great Recession’ that shook advanced and emerging 
economies alike. It is also becoming apparent that the crisis has been 
having very different impacts spatially. This will only help to further 
exacerbate uneven economic development, fuelling more trouble down the 
line. In Europe, major economic fault-lines are re-emerging between and 
within national economies; between the core and the periphery; between 
urban and rural areas; between city-regions and within cities 
themselves. This pattern is replicated elsewhere - in advanced, emerging 
and developing world. There is an urgent need to re-examine all aspects 
of local and regional development and how it relates to national and 
international economic dynamics; and to social, political, cultural, 
technological and environmental processes. Having spent over 50 years 
advocating more balanced regional development, the Regional Studies 
Association is now spearheading a major effort to address these pressing 
issues in such challenging times.

We are thus calling upon regional studies experts, spatial scientists, 
economists, business studies scholars, political scientists, local 
development specialists, urban geographers, spatial planners, transport 
experts, development studies scholars, environmentalists, sociologists, 
economic geographers, financial geographers, academics, researchers and 
practitioners alike, to join us to be part of ‘New Directions’ in 
regional studies!"

http://www.regionalstudies.org/conferences/conference/rsa-dublin-2017

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Doctoral Candidate
Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development
Department of Socioeconomics
WU/Vienna University of Economics and Business
Austria
WU: www.wu.ac.at/mlgd/en

Personal: annhartell.com