Attached below is a Call for Papers for Remote Regions/Northern
Development Sessions, special sessions to be held during the Western
Regional Science Association Forty-Second Annual Meeting, which will be
held at the Rio Rico Resort near Tucson, Arizona, from 26 February -
2 March 2003.
Send or email a copy of papers for the the Remote Regions/Northern
Development Sessions by 1 November 2002 to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Dept. 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
For more information on the Western Regional Science Association's
Forty-Second Annual Meeting, being held at the Rio Rico Resort near
Tucson, Arizona, from 26 February - 2 March 2003, please visit the web
site:
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Forty-Second Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association will be held at the Rio Rico Resort near Tucson, Arizona.
The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon February 26 with a
special Opening Session and Reception. Paper sessions will be scheduled
Thursday through Saturday, 27 February - 1 March 2003.
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, Scandinavia,
Australia, Micronesia, Israel, Russia, and the coterminous United States
have presented papers.
The Remote Regions/ Northern Development sessions are in their twentieth
year. We 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.
POTENTIAL TOPICS
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; the effects of government expenditures; the conditions
of success or failure of development projects; sustainable development;
relations between the subsistence and market economies; Native labor
force participation; regional benefits and costs of development;
economic integration and cultural preservation; migration; changing
social patterns; housing, health, education, and community development;
Native sovereignty and federalism; comparative Native claims; political
movements, settlements, and outcomes; development of local and regional
political institutions; resource ownership and management regimes.
Send or email a copy of papers for the REMOTE REGIONS/ NORTHERN
DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS by 1 November 2002 to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Dept. 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
For more information on the Western Regional Science Association's
Forty-Second Annual Meeting, being held at the Rio Rico Resort near
Tucson, Arizona, from 26 February - 2 March 2003, please visit the web
site:
Send or email your paper for other sessions to:
Professor David Plane, WRSA 2003 Program Chair
Department of Geography & Regional Development
University of Arizona
Harvill Building, Box #2 (2nd & Olive Streets)
Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
plane [at] u.arizona.edu
DEADLINE FOR GENERAL PAPERS: 15 October 2002