CALL FOR PAPERS | 19th APDR Congress - Joint initiative with Innovaflow Conference | 20-22 June 2013 | University of Minho, Braga

«19^th APDR Congress

University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), 20-22 June 2013

It is our pleasure to announce the 19th APDR Congress, to be held at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, from June 20^th to June 22^nd 2013. A joint initiative with the Innovaflow Conference.

Theme of the Congress:

"PLACE-BASED POLICIES AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY"

Place-based policies aim at solving persistent under-use of resources and reduce enduring social exclusion in specific places. This is achieved through external interventions and multi-level governance devoted to promote the supply of integrated goods and services tailored to specific regional contexts and to stimulate institutional changes (Barca, 2009). How to design and assess these policies? How to integrate sustainable development strategies when most policies are sectoral and problematic places do not have adequate institutions? How to promote institutional capital at the local and regional levels? How to move beyond the established administrative boundaries toward functional places? How to learn from the failures of former regional policies that promoted regions in crisis? During the congress, participants and reputed specialists will try to answer some of these questions.

This year's congress will count on a group of Special Sessions organized by several members of the Scientific Committee of the Congress on specific themes of regional science. The papers presented in these Special Sessions result from invitations addressed by the organizers and are not therefore open to submissions.

Special Sessions

·         SS1 - Tourism and Regional Development 

José Cadima Ribeiro (U Minho) 

·         SS2 - Public Finances and Regional Development 

José Costa (U Porto) 

·         SS3 - The Regional Development Policies in Portugal in the Framework of Cohesion Policy 

Rui Nuno Baleiras (U Minho) 

·         SS4 - Models of Regional Analysis - Input-Output Applications 

Ana Lúcia Sargento (IP Leiria) 

·         SS5 - Governance and Regional Development 

Adriano Pimpão (U Algrave) 

·         SS6 - Major Events and Regional Development

Paula Cristina Remoaldo (U Minho) 

·         SS7 - Urban World in 2050 

Eduardo Anselmo Castro (U Aveiro) 

·         SS8 - Territorial Cohesion in the EU

Regina Salvador (U Nova) 

·         SS9 - Regional Innovation Systems and Regional Development 

Mário Rui Silva (U Porto)

·         SS10 - Air Transport and Regional Development 

Jorge Silva (U Beira Interior)

·         SS11 - Social Spaces: A New Literature of Regional Economy

Paulo Mourão (U Minho)

·         SS12 - The Financing of Transport Infrastructure and its Framework in Regional Development 

Rosário Macário (IST-UTL)

·         SS13 - Education, Labour Market and Regional Development 

João Carlos Cerejeira (U Minho)

·         SS14 - Markets of Housing and Urban Development 

João Marques (U Aveiro)

·         SS15 - Agricultural Policies: How to Integrate Sectoral and Territorial Objectives 

Lívia Madureira (UTAD)

·         SS16 - Located Food Systems: New Dynamics and Challenges 

Artur Cristovão (UTAD)

·         SS17 - Networks and Regional Development

Anabela Ribeiro (U Coimbra)

·         SS18 - Public Policies and Regional Development

Paulo Neto (U Évora)

·         SS19 - Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Luísa Carvalho (IP Setúbal) & Pedro Dominguinhos (IP  Setúbal)

·         SS20 - Renaissance of Southern European Regions

Maria Conceição Rego (U Évora)

The call for papers is open and your participation is very welcome. 

Themes of specific interest are:

·         Bartolomeu Award

·         Urban and Regional Economics

·         Regional and Local Development Policies

·         Financing of Economic Growth

·         Spatial Dimensions of the Crisis of the State

·         Regional and Local Public Finance

·         Sectoral Policies and Regional Dynamics

·         Infrastructure and Regional Development

·         Labour Markets and Development

·         Tourism and Sustainable Development

·         Innovation and Territory

·         Rural Development and Agrarian Economy

·         Modelling in Regional Economy

·         Spatial Econometrics

·         Regional and Urban Planning

·         Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources

·         Innovation Networks in Portugal: Flow Intensity, Knowledge Spillovers and Firm Performances (Innovaflow Conference) 

Deadline for submissions: April 1^st, 2013. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the platform available on the Conference website:

http://events.digitalpapers.org/2

Notification of acceptance: until April 17^th, 2013.

More information: http://www.apdr.pt/congresso/2013/home.html

Looking forward to meeting you in Braga!

Francisco Carballo-Cruz

Chair of the Local Organizing Committee

19^th APDR Congress»

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