Congress Theme
Culture, Cohesion and Competitiveness - Regional Perspectives.
The overarching theme for the Congress will be Culture, Cohesion and Competitiveness – Regional Perspectives. This encapsulates a number of different aspects that are topical and relevant not only for Liverpool but also across the whole of Europe.
Congress Thematic Topics
The programme will be organised around a variety of topics and include plenary sessions with lectures by distinguished keynote speakers, including Professor Ed Glaeser (Harvard), Professor Sir Alan Wilson (University College London) and Professor Tony Venables (University of Oxford).
A number of topics will reflect the central theme but as usual there will provision for other topics. There will also be young scientists sessions.
- Cultural regeneration and its evaluation
- Climate change and its implications for urban and regional development
- The evidence base for regional policy
- Regional analysis of enterprise formation, deformation and survival
- The development of air transport in European regions
- Labour mobility in the extended European Union
- The regenerative role of river basin management
- Spatial targeting and urban policy
- Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
- Local dimensions of sustainable development
- Globalisation and regional competitiveness
- Migration, diasporas and development
- Social segregation, poverty and space
- Rural and local development
- Dublin and Liverpool: two cities compared
- Cross-border cooperation and development
- Renewable energy; a regional development perspective
- Regeneration of urban districts: analysis, policy and evaluation
- The future for regional policy in Europe
- Public health and regional prosperity
- Spatial econometrics
- Long-term unemployment and lagging regions
- New technologies, innovation and space
- Public finance and regional development
- Sustainable development and regional economic strategies
- Spatial economic analysis
- Retail development and competitiveness
- Agglomeration, clusters and policy
- City and regional marketing
- Location of economic activities and people: new directions
- City and regional governance: the role of city regions
- Infrastructure, transport, mobility and communication
- Learning regions
- New frontiers in regional science: theory and methodology
Details of Epainos Award and Young Regional Scientist Sessions are available here: EAYRS