Dear
Colleagues
Please
find below the September 2010 newsletter for the IGU-Commission on Local and Regional Development .
CONTENTS
1. Activities Report
2. Conference announcements
3.
Publications
4. Relevant information and news
1. Activities
Report
The Commission on Local and Regional Development annual
meeting was framed within the IGU Regional Conference in Israel, July 12-16. The
venue for the Conference was the Dan Panorama Hotel in coastal Tel Aviv. The
program was diversified and together with one joint session with the Commission
on Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Response with
Local Development there were altogether 18 papers.
Sessions of the Commission on Local Development
Tel-Aviv, July 2010
SESSION 1: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: SOCIAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND
POLICY ISSUES
Chair: M. Sofer, Israel
C.
Vázquez, J.M. Martínez
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
Spain
LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: FINDINGS AND INSIGHTS IN CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
REGION (SPAIN)
J.
Kolejka
Academy of Sciences of Czech
Republic, Czech Republic
POST-INDUSTRIAL
LANDSCAPE – PHYSICAL CHANGES AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES
T.
Sorensen
University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN MARKET ECONOMIES
L.M.
Korytny, L.A. Bezrukov
V.B.
Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, Irkutsk Russia
SIBERIA
AS THE MAIN WEALTH OF RUSSIA
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SESSION 2: LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE RURAL SPACE I
Chair: J. Banski, Poland
R.
Nurkovic
The University in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herczegovina
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
TRANFORMATION OF RURAL AREAS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
A. Vaishar, M. Woods, M.
Stastna, H. Mrazkova
Mendel University Brno, Czech
Republic, Aberystwyth University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences,
UK
EUROPEAN
RURAL REGIONS IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: THE SOUTH MORAVIA CASE STUDY
J.
Bernard, T. Kostelecký
Academy
of Sciences, Czech Republic
CAN WE
MEASURE THE INFLUENCE OF ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT FACTORS IN SMALL RURAL
MUNICIPALITIES?
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SESSION 3: LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE RURAL SPACE II
Chair:
T. Sorensen, Australia
L.
Mendes Barbosa
Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil
BETWEEN
OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS: CLIENTELISM TRADITION,
LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN THE GOVERNMENT
PROGRAM
OF ONE MILLION RURAL RAINWATER CISTERNS (P1MC) IN THE MIDDLE JEQUITINHONHA,
MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL
M.
Sofer, L. Applebaum
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel
SOCIAL
AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN THE RURAL SPACE IN ISRAEL
K.
Czapiewski
Polish Academy of Sciences,
Warsaw, Poland
SUCCESSFUL
RURAL AREAS – IDENTIFICATION OF CREATIVE FACTORS
S. Sao
University
of North Bengal, India
POLICIES
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRIBAL STONE WORK INDUSTRY: CASE STUDY IN EASTERN
INDIA
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SESSION 4: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING
Chair: S. Sao, India
J. Banski
Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw,
Poland
THE
INFLUENCES OF EU BORDER ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT – AN
EXAMPLE
OF BORDERLAND OF THE LUBLIN REGION
V.
Vozenilek, H. Kilianova, S. Fabbro, J. Burian, J. Svobodova,
J. Iliopoulou-Georgudaki
Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech
Republic, University of Udin, Italy, University of Patra, Greece
GEOGRAPHIC
APPROACHES IN STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT IN
DIFFERENT NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
R.
Khamaisi
University of Haifa, Israel
DEVELOPMENT
OF A DIRECTORATE FOR MANAGING LOCAL INDUSTRIAL AREA IN ARAB LOCALITIES IN
ISRAEL
T.
Sorensen
University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
COMMUNITY
SURVIVAL IN A GLOBAL WORLD: AN AUSTRALIAN
PERSPECTIVE
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SESSION 5: Joint Session MARGINALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONAL
AND LOCAL RESPONSE WITH LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
Chair: K. Czapiewski, Poland
C. Chen, D. Lopez-Carr
University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA, USA
FROM
SUBJECTS TO CITIZENS: EMPOWERING LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
P.
Churski, A. Borowczak
Adam Mickiewicz University of
Poznan, High School of Humanities and
Journalism in Poznan, Poland
EFFICIENCY
OF INTERVENTIONS CO-FINANCED BY EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS IN WIELKOPOLSKA IN YEARS
2004-2006
P.Y.
Baklanov
Pacific Institute of Geography FEB
RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
THE
PACIFIC RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND FACTORS OF A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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The following congress internet
site contains all the information about the congress:
2.
Future conferences
A. The 2011 annual meeting of
the Commission will be held in Seoul. It will take place within the framework
of the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography: Space, Economy and
Environment, which will be held on 28 June - 1 July 2011, COEX, Seoul. The
commission proposed theme for its sessions, and which could also serve the
conference is a simple one: "Local development in a Globalized World -
Issues and Implications". We had this experience in the past when we had
our annual meeting in the previous Global Conference on Economic Geography in
Beijing 2007. We are glad that two members of the commission's steering
committee are on the International Advisory Committee of the conference: Prof.
Bjorn Asheim and Prof. Michael Storper.
Please
submit abstracts (300-500 words) online
at www.space-economy.org. While
submitting please specify the IGU Commission on Local Development as the
destination of your abstract. A copy of the
abstract can be sent to me as well at: soferm1@mail.biu.ac.il
Abstract due: Jan. 31, 2011
Registration due: March 31, 2011
The
updated timetable of the Commission on Local Development activities: 2011-2014
Year
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Month
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Place
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Comments
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Theme
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2011
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June 28 – July 1
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Seoul
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Commission annual meeting
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Local development in a Globalized World
- Issues and Implications.
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2012
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August
26-30
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Köln
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IGU International Congress
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To be decided.
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2013
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To
be decided
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Belo-Horizonte, Brazil
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Commission annual meeting
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To be decided.
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2014
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To
be decided
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Krakow
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IGU Regional Conference
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To be decided.
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B. Corresponding members
should be aware, that the IGU has moved to have three regional conferences,
rather than one, between the four-yearly IGU Congresses. Next year, there will
be a regional conference in Santiago, Chile. The Köln Congress in 2012 will be
followed by meetings in Kyoto (2013), Krakow (2014), Moscow (2015), and Beijing in
2016.
(1) IGU
Regional Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2011
A regional IGU Conference is to be held in Santiago, Chile
in late 2011.
Date: November 14th-18th, 2011.
Venue: Liberator Bernado O’Higgins Military School, Santiago,
Chile.
Theme: ‘United and Integrated with the World’.
Further information on the conference, its
organization and sub-themes can be found on the website: www.igi2011.cl
(2) 32nd
IGU International Congress, Köln, Germany, 2012
The 32nd IGU Congress will be held in Köln,
Germany.
Date: August 26th-30th, 2012.
Venue: University of Cologne, Köln, Germany.
Theme: ‘Down to Earth’
The 32nd International Geographical Congress will
‘focus scientific attention on the core themes of humanity’. Further
information on the conference, its organization and sub-themes will become
available on the website: www.Cologne2012.de
C.
Other conferences
(1) XIV Congress of the Russian Geographical Society,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2010
Date:
November 22nd-26th, 2010.
Venue:
Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Website:
http://int.rgo.ru/
[English language version of the Congress website.]
Please
see the website for more details of the Congress. You may also contact Keeniya
Ivanenko at: kseniya.ivanenko@rgo.ru.
(2)
European Association of Geographers Congress, Athens, Greece, 2011
Date:
June 2nd-5th, 2011.
Venue:
Titania Hotel, Athens, Greece.
Theme:
‘Geography: Your World – A European Perspective’.
Website: www.eurogeography.eu
The European Association of Geographers – EUROGEO – in
collaboration with the Laboratory of Geography of the National Technical University
of Athens, Greece (NTUA), is organizing its annual meeting for 2011 in Athens,
Greece. The scope of the Congress is for original and innovative papers to be
presented which will substantially improve, in a theoretical, conceptual or
empirical way, the quality of research, learning, teaching and application in
geography, as well as in promoting the significance of geography as a
discipline.
The deadline for abstract submission is: January 31st,
2011.
3. Publications
The outcome of last year annual
meeting in Warsaw was a special volume of the Journal Rural Studies edited by Jerzy Banski. Rural Studies Volume no. 20
carried the title: Socio-Economic Disparities and the Role of Local
Development and contained 9 of the papers that were presented in that
meeting. Those who are willing to receive a copy of the journal may approach Jerzy
Banski: jbanski@twarda.pan.pl
We are following last year’s success and Jerzy Banski is editing another
volume of Rural Studies of selected refereed papers presented at the sessions
in the meeting in Tel-Aviv, July 2010.
4. Relevant information
A. Collaboration with other
commissions:
In the past we have
collaborated with other commissions, particularly in operating the annual
meeting. Recently, two commission heads have approached us, suggesting a future
cooperation, again on the basis of a joint annual conference. The two
commissions are:
1.
Sustainability of Rural Systems
2.
Marginalization,
Globalization, and Regional and Local Responses
I’ll be happy to receive your
opinions on this matter, and I expect people to suggest topics that could suit
and deserve such cooperation. Write to me to the following address: soferm1@mail.biu.ac.il
B. I would like to have a
section in the newsletter titled NEWS FROM OUR COLLEAGUES. These may
include announcements regarding forthcoming conferences, conference reports,
new books and other publications, educational programs, etc. So I hereby submit
a request to one and all to send us news that you think may be relevant to our
activities, and wish us to spread among our members. We are
particularly interested to hear about research in the realms of Local
Development, program and courses that are taught in universities and research
institutions, conferences that are being organized, new publications relevant
to the field of local development, and other issues of interest that you would
like to share with us.
There are some areas where the
Commission has not made much progress. We should be adopting a correspondent
structure to make sure that colleagues interested in what we do will be able to
receive such information. We would like to increase the number of corresponding
members. Names of potential corresponding people are welcome. [soferm1@mail.biu.ac.il]
Please
spread the news about the commission among all those persons you might think
may have interest to take part in the LD commission’s future sessions. Also, please let me know if we can add any of your
colleagues to the mailing list, perhaps new members in your department or
others you meet at conferences interested in our activities.
C. The information in this newsletter will be
uploaded to the Commission's web site at: http://www.biu.ac.il/soc/ge/igucomld/
For
IGU updates check the Home of Geography website:
With best wishes,
Michael Sofer
Chairman, Commission on Local Development,
IGU
