Call for Papers
Remote Regions/Northern Development Sessions
Western Regional Science Association 46th Annual Meeting
21-24 February 2007
Newport Beach, California
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 1 November 2006
Further meeting information is available online at:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html
The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association (WRSA) will be held in Newport Beach, California, beginning
on Wednesday, 21 February 2007 with a special opening session and
reception. Paper sessions are scheduled for 22-24 February.
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. In the past, researchers from Canada, Alaska, Hawaii,
Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia, Israel, Russia, and the
coterminous United States have presented papers.
The remote regions/northern development sessions are in their
twenty-fourth year. Organizers are again issuing a general call for
papers from economists, political scientists, anthropologists,
sociologists, historians, planners, and others involved in research in
northern and other remote regions.
General topics include the analysis and discussion of economic,
political, and social-cultural change in remote and sparsely settled
regions. Examples of specific topics include: the consequences of new
technology; the effects of government expenditures; the conditions for
success or failure of development projects; relations between the
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. While papers on any topic consistent with the general theme
are welcomed, organizers encourage papers addressing two particular
topics:
- migration in northern and remote regions, and
- institutional change and resource governance in northern and remote
regions.
Organizers also welcome special sessions and are particularly interested
in sessions which address a particular theme from the perspective of a
number of countries or regions. Please contact Lee Huskey if you are
interested in organizing such a session.
Send or e-mail a copy of your paper by Wednesday, 1 November 2006 to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Department of Economics
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99508
E-mail: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu
Information about association membership, registration, hotel
reservations, and related matters will be sent to those who respond to
this call.
Further meeting information is available online at:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html>