Dear
Colleagues
Please
find below the October 2011 newsletter of the IGU-Commission for Local
Development.
CONTENTS
1. Activities Report
2. Future conferences
3.
Publications
4. Relevant information and news
1. Activities
Report
The Commission on Local and Regional Development annual
meeting was framed within the Third International Conference on Economic
Geography, in Seoul , South
Korea
Sessions of the Commission
Session 1: Local development in
the rural space
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Chair of session:
Professor Jerzy Banski
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Restructuring
of the rural-urban fringe of the Tel-Aviv Metropolitan Area: Revitalizing
agricultural settlements and their activities
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Sofer
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Michael
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Head
of IGU Commission on Local Development, Department of Geography and
Environment,
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Local
development in a globalized world: how much of the rural areas are local or
global? The case of the French “Poles d’Excellence Rurale”
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Ceapraz
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Ion
Lucian
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Polytechnic Institute LaSalle Beauvais, research unit
PICAR-T (Processus d’Innovation, Compétitivité dans l’Agriculture et
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Information
technology and the knowledge economy in
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Moriset
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Bruno
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Spatial
difference of coordinative development of urban and rural areas and its
mechanism in
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Shi
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Peiji
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Dean,
College of Geographic and Environmental
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Session 2: Local and regional
development in a globalizes world
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Chair of session:
Professor Michael Sofer
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Localism
in the face of globalization processes
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Banski
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Jerzy
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Deputy
Head of IGU Commission on Local Development,
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Towards
quantum regional policy: Effective local development under uncertainty
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Sorensen
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Anthony
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Division
of Geography and Planning, School of Behavioural Cognitive and Social
Science,
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Local
development in a globalized world
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Derban
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Galina
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Altay
State Technical university named after I.I. Polzunov,
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Infrastructure,
accessibility and resources – changes in the school system and in the level
of education in the Mazovia region (
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Czapiewski
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Konrad
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Besides these sessions various issues of local
development were spread all over the conference sessions. We are glad that two
members of the commission's steering committee were on the International
Advisory Committee of the conference: Prof. Bjorn Asheim and Prof. Michael
Storper. Bjorn himself was very active in the plenary sessions.
The following congress internet
site contains all the information about the congress:
2.
Future conferences
A. The 2012 annual meeting of
the Commission will be held in Cologne , Germany Cologne , Cologne (Köln),
Germany
We follow past experience when we had our annual
meetings in the IGU Congress in Glasgow 2004, in the IGU Congress in Tunis 2008 and in the IGU
Regional Conference Tel-Aviv in 2010.
The 32nd International Geographical Congress will
‘focus its scientific attention on the core themes of humanity’. Further
information on the conference, its organization and sub-themes are available on
the website:
Please
submit abstracts (up to 300 words) online
at:
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@biu.ac.il
Abstract due: 15 December 2011
Online registration for the IGC 2012 will open on 2
November 2011
B. 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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2012
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August
26-30
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IGU Congress
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Down to earth
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2013
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August
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IGU Regional Conference
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To be decided
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2014
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To
be decided
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Commission annual meeting
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To be decided
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* I would like to inform all
the corresponding members about a planned field trip to Vladivostok that we are
organising in 2013 in association with the
Pacific Geographical Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
located in Vladivostok Kyoto Kyoto
Prof. Atsushi Taira will assist the commission
in organising the meeting in Kyoto
C. Corresponding members
should be aware, that the IGU has moved to have three regional conferences, rather than one, between the four-yearly IGU
Congresses. This year, there will be a regional conference in Santiago , Chile Kyoto (2013), Krakow
(2014), Moscow (2015), and Beijing
D. IGU
Regional Conference, Santiago , Chile
A regional IGU Conference is to be held in Santiago , Chile
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: http://www.ugi2011.cl/
3. Publications
A. We are following the outcome of 2009 meeting 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.
The volume is being edited at present and should be out soon.
Those who are willing to
receive a copy of the journal may approach Jerzy Banski: jbanski@twarda.pan.pl
Corresponding members who are willing to inform other members of any new
publication, concerning issues of local development, written by them or any
other scholar are welcome to send me the details and I'll take care to diffuse
the message and the details among our members.
B. Our member Tony Sorensen is a
co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, the journal of the Australia Australia and New Zealand
4. Relevant information
and news
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. You are welcome to offer cooperation with other
commissions as well. Write to me to the following address: soferm1@biu.ac.il
B. I raise again my request.
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.
We would like to increase the
number of corresponding members. 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. Names of potential corresponding people are welcome.
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:
The latest newsletter has been
published in July 2011.
Also check the new web site of
the IGU
With best wishes,
Michael Sofer
Chairman, Commission on Local Development,
IGU
