Call for Papers to the 23rd Uddevalla Symposium 2020
Call for Papers to the 23rd Uddevalla Symposium 2020 on: The Geography of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship – Implications for Regional Growth and Development June 11-13, 2020 Venue: Stenungsbaden Hotel & Conference, Stenungsund, Sweden Keynote Speakers Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria Abreu University of Cambridge, UK Prof. Zoltan Acs George Mason University, USA Prof. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen […]
Postdoc: Landscape planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
Department or Urban and Rural Development At the Department of Urban and Rural Development there are four divisions: Agrarian History, Environmental Communication, Landscape Architecture and Rural Development. The department is the largest within SLU for social sciences, humanities and design research. Questions about sustainable use and management of natural resources and landscapes are central to […]
Nordic Division (NoRSA)
NORSA was formally established at a meeting in Umeå, Sweden, in September 2008. NORSA is a non-political, voluntary, self-governing organisation with non-profit objectives andshares the aims and objects of the Regional Studies Association, which are: (a) to promote education in the field of regional studies (those studies which relate to the economic, physical and sociological […]
Smart City‐Regional Governance for Sustainability: Smart Governance (and Institutions) – A Question of Sustainability?
Historical Constructions of Regions and Regionalism
Final Report RSA Research Network Regional Economic and Policy History (ReHi)
Organisers Marijn Molema, Fryske Akademy, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Arno van der Zwet, University of the West of Scotland, UK Martin Åberg, Centre for Regional Studies, University of Karlstad Sara Svensson, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University The past plays a crucial role in understanding, developing and implementing regional economic development […]
Crossing the Fehmarn Belt: A New Transnational Region in the Making
Commencing operation in 2021, a new tunnel will provide the final piece in the jigsaw linking the city of Hamburg in Germany to Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden which together form the STRING region. This fixed link will complement the existing bridge crossing the Öresund strait between Denmark and Sweden which opened to […]
Regional Governance in the EU
Hot off the press from the European Commisssion’s Regional Policy unit is a working paper by Nicholas Charron, Lewis Dijkstra and Victor Lapuente Gine on the quality of regional governance in the EU. This is part of the ‘Regional Focus & Working Papers’ series and it contains some fascinating insights into the quality of regional […]