We are pleased to invite you to join us in New Orleans for the 71st North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI)!

The conference is co-sponsored by the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Southern Regional Science Association.

The conference will take place in downtown New Orleans, November 13-16. The conference will cover a wide range of topics in regional science. We welcome submissions from scholars and practitioners in fields such as economics, agricultural economics, public policy, urban planning, civil engineering, geography, finance, and demography. We also encourage submissions of interdisciplinary research that relates to these topics.

We particularly encourage submissions that address current challenges facing policymakers, and the challenges facing governments, businesses, and society in adapting to pandemic-induced disruptions.

We invite proposals for the following types:

·         Individual papers to be integrated into sessions

·         Proposals for complete sessions of papers

·         Proposals for panel, roundtable, or discussions

·         Student papers for the Graduate-Student-Author Paper Competition

·         Student papers for the Graduate-Student-Led Paper Competition

We have a number of organized sessions devoted to specific topics. If you are interested in participating in one of these sessions, please contact the organizers directly. See the list of special session calls using this link. The list of sessions is updated regularly, so please check back often.

Are you interested in organizing a special session or a series of sessions? If so, please contact the Program Chair, Sandy Dall'erba (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), as soon as possible.

To submit an abstract or a complete session, please use our online submission system. The submission deadline is July 12, 2024. Decisions concerning the acceptance of papers and sessions will be announced in late August. All presenters, including members of panel discussions, discussants, and session chairs, must register for the conference and pay the registration fee in order to attend and present.

If you have questions, here is the contact information:
Program Chair: Sandy Dall'erba (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Overall Arrangements: John Sporing (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!

A block of rooms has been reserved at the The New Orleans Marriott (555 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70130).

A special conference room rate of $219 (plus taxes) has been negotiated with the hotel. You can book your room at the conference hotel using this link. By doing so, NARSC will get credit for your booking. 

We are pleased to announce that Reaching Regions, the new peer-reviewed, open access, outreach journal of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), began accepting submissions on May 15, 2024.

As part of the launch of the journal, we are now accepting submissions for an inaugural collection of papers. The submission deadline is August 15, 2024, and we expect to publish this collection later this year.

Reaching Regions will publish contributions on topics of policy relevance to North American regions including original descriptive analyses, data visualizations, non-technical summaries of published academic research, case studies with broader implications, research syntheses, and other items approved by the Editors. All submissions should be written in non-technical language that is accessible to non-academics.

Reaching Regions will be peer-reviewed, open-access, and published fully online. NARSC members can submit papers with no submission or publication fees. Potential contributions can be submitted via the journal’s online submission portal: https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/rreg/submissions/

Please feel free reach out if you want to discuss the suitability of your submission or broader regional science outreach efforts. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Heather Stephens, West Virginia University (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
John Winters, Iowa State University (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)