Call For Papers
Northern Development/Remote Regions Session
Western Regional Science Association 45th Annual Meeting
22-25 February 2005
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Paper Submission Deadline: 1 November 2005
For further information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html
The forty-fifth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association (WRSA) will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico at La Fonda on
the Plaza. The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon 22 February
with a special opening session and reception. Paper sessions will be
scheduled Thursday through Saturday, 23-25 February 2006.
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-third 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. While papers on any topic consistent with the general theme are
welcomed, examples of specific topics might include: the consequences of
new technology or institutions; the effects of government expenditures;
the conditions for success or failure of development projects;
sustainable development; relations between the subsistence and market
economies; regional benefits and costs of development; economic
integration and cultural preservation; migration; community development;
changing social patterns; Native sovereignty and federalism; development
of local and regional political institutions; and resource ownership and
management regimes.
Special sessions are welcome, particularly 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 to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Department of Economics
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508
E-mail: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu
Information about association membership, registration, hotel
reservations, and related matters will be sent to those responding to
this call.
Further meeting information is available at:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html