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CALL FOR PAPERS
Western Regional Science Association - Forty-First Annual Meeting
Remote Regions/Northern Development Sessions
17-20 February 2002
Hyatt Regency Monterey
Monterey, CA
The forty-first annual meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association will be held in Monterey, California at the Hyatt Regency
Monterey. The conference will begin on Sunday afternoon 17 February 2002
with a special Opening Session and Reception. Paper sessions will be
scheduled Monday through Wednesday, 18-20 February 2002.
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 nineteenth
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 two copies of your paper by 1 November 2001 to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Dept. of Economics
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska 99508 USA
E-mail: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu
We will be sending information about association membership,
registration, hotel reservations, and related matters to those
responding to this call. You can find out more about the meetings at the
WRSA web site at: http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa
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