Call for Papers
Western Regional Science Association 44th Annual Meeting
Remote Regions/Northern Development Sessions
San Diego, California
23-26 February 2005
Submission Deadline: Monday, 1 November 2004
For further meeting information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html#SanDiego
GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION
The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association (WRSA) will be held at the Hyatt Regency Islander Resort in
San Diego, California. The conference will begin with a special Opening
Session and Reception on the afternoon of Wednesday, 23 February. Paper
sessions will be scheduled Thursday through Saturday, 24-26 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-second 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.
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:
- Consequences of new technology or institutions
- Effects of government expenditures
- 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
- Resource ownership and management regimes
We would 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. If you are interested in organizing such
a session, please contact:
Professor Lee Huskey
aflh [at] cbpp.uaa.alaska.edu
Please submit papers to:
Professor Lee Huskey
Deptartment of Economics
College of Business and Public Policy
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Anchorage, AK 99508
E-mail: aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu
Submission Deadline: Monday, 1 November 2004
For further meeting information, please go to:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html#SanDiego