Call for Papers:
Remote Regions/ Northern Development Sessions
Western Regional Science Association Forty-Third Annual Meeting
Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
25-28 February 2004
For more information see:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html
Deadline: 1 November 2003
The forty-third annual meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association will be held at the Wailea Marriott Resort on the Hawaiian
Island of Maui. The conference will begin on Wednesday afternoon
February 25 with a special Opening Session and Reception. Paper sessions
will be scheduled Thursday through Saturday, February 26-28,2004.
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-first 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
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. Please contact Lee Huskey if you are
interested in organizing such a session.
Send or email a copy of your paper by November 1, 2003 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
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 (http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa).