Call for Papers
Remote Regions / Northern Development Sessions
Western Regional Science Association, 48th Annual Meeting
Napa California
22-25 February 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: 1 November 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html
The organizers of the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Western
Regional Science Association (WRSA) announce a call for papers. The
meeting will be held at the Silverado Resort, in Napa, California from
22-25 February 2009. The Remote Regions / Northern Development sessions
are in their twenty-sixth year. The 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.
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,
Greenland, Finland, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Micronesia,
Israel, Russia, and the coterminous United States have presented papers.
General topics include the analysis and discussion of economic,
political, and social-cultural change in remote and sparsely settled
regions. Papers on any topic consistent with the general theme are
welcomed. 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
- Native sovereignty and federalism
- Migration
- Institutional change and resource governance in remote regions
The 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.
Conference organizers will be sending information about association
membership, registration, hotel reservations, and related matters to
those responding to this call.
Send or email a copy of your paper by 1 November 2008 to:
Lee Huskey
Email: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu
Department of Economics
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99508
For further information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html