Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals
The APDR invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of related disciplines to participate in the 27th APDR Congress that will be held from 9 to 10 of July, 2020, at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo (CCCAH) in Terceira Island, Portugal.
Beyond the various themes related to regional science this congress will focus on the emerging topic of Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development. With the enlargement of the ocean areas managed by countries it is important to know what are the aims? What the management tools are? And what the impacts are for human communities?
The call for papers and Special Session Proposals are open and your participation is very welcome!
Themes of specific interest are:
- RS01 - Sustainable Management of the Sea for Sustainable Regional Development
- RS02 - New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
- RS03 - Circular Economy at Regional, National and International Level
- RS04 - Migration, Integration, Growth and Welfare
- RS05 - Social, Economic and Environmental spatialized impacts of tourism and sports
- RS06 - Spatial Aspects of the Green Deal
- RS07 - Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- RS08 - Spatial Allocation of Public Goods and Services
- RS09 - Regional resilience and crisis
- RS10 - Low-density regions and development
- RS11 - Big and Available Data for regional science
- RS12 - Geographic Information Systems and location modelling
- RS13 - Systemic Analysis of Transport and Communication Networks
- RS14 - Methodological approaches to Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- RS15 - Operational Models for Cities and Regions
- RS16 - Qualitative analysis of spatial interaction within space
- RS17 - Spatial econometrics
- RS18 - Ecological Economic Approaches and Methods
- RS19 - Tools to analyse, evaluate and Manage Ecosystem Services
- RS20 - Urban design and city competitiveness and sustainability
Deadline for Special Session proposals: February 29, 2020. Proposals should be sent by email to the secretariat of the Congress (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Deadline for Abstracts submissions: March 30, 2020. Authors should submit their abstracts through online submission system by following the link https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/APDR2020.
All information at the congress website: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2020
Looking forward to meeting you in Angra do Heroísmo!
The Organizing Committee and the Board of APDR
27th APDR Congress