Event Detail | February 17 – 20, 2008
Western Regional Science Association 47th Annual MeetingWaikoloa, Hawaii
Paper Submission Deadline: 1 November 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html
or contact:
Lee Huskey
University of Alaska Anchorage
E-mail: aflh@uaa.alaska.edu
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The forty-seventh annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) will be held on 17-20 February 2008 on the Big Island of Hawaii at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort. The WRSA meeting includes a series of Remote Regions / Northern Development sessions to accommodate social scientists who have a special interest in research on economic, social, political, and cultural issues in remote, sparsely settled regions in the circumpolar north and elsewhere.
Papers are invited for the Remote Regions / Northern Development sessions from economists, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, planners, and others involved in research in northern and other remote regions. Examples of specific topics for papers include the consequences of new technology, effects of government expenditures, conditions for success or failure of development projects, relations between subsistence and market economies, regional benefits and costs of development, economic integration and cultural preservation, community development, changing social patterns, and Native sovereignty and federalism. Papers on any topic consistent with the general theme are welcomed.
Papers addressing two particular topics are especially welcome: (1) migration in remote regions and (2) institutional change and resource governance in remote regions. Meeting organizers also welcome suggestions for special sessions, particularly those that will address a particular theme from the perspectives of a number of countries or regions. Participants interested in organizing such a session should contact:
Lee Huskey
University of Alaska Anchorage
E-mail: aflh@uaa.alaska.edu
