For more information about the fortieth annual meeting of the Western
Regional Science Association (WRSA) check the WRSA web site
(http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa) or contact Professor Lee Huskey at
aflh [at] uaa.alaska.edu. Information about association membership, registration,
hotel reservations, and related matters will be sent to those responding to
this call for papers.
Please post and share this announcement with your colleagues.
CALL FOR PAPERS
REMOTE REGIONS/ NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS
WESTERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
FORTIETH ANNUAL MEETINGS
The fortieth annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association
will be held in Palm Springs, California at the Palm Springs Rivera Resort
and Racquet Club. Paper sessions will be scheduled Sunday through
Wednesday, February 25-28, 2001.
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, and the coterminous United States have presented papers.
The Remote Regions/ Northern Development sessions are in their eighteenth
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 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 November 1, 2000 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