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"FAMILY
AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT"
20th Workshop APDR
Domus Carmeli, Fátima (Portugal), 27-28 April 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March
5th, 2014
The Portuguese Association for Regional Development brings together scientists that discuss the interactions of man with the territory or, in other words, the issues related to the development of people and places. The mobilizing themes evolve according to fashions and so it´s going talking about the location of public and private efforts, and the location and size of the companies and the interactions between them, migration, desertification of the peripheries and congestion of the centres. There are also sectoral issues with strong spatial reference that come to the floor like tourism, communications, infrastructure, environment, agriculture and transport. The discourse on recognizable entities such as SMEs, NGOs, IPSS, municipalities, stakeholders, state and multinationals is also important for the regional development. And do not forget the names of evolving terms such as human capital, cultural, social and institutional issues; economies of scale, agglomeration or context. All these concepts and models that connect them are important and help us to realize and understand regional development.
The
strange thing is that we never speak explicitly on Family
and Regional Development. There is some literature on economic
development and family on the role of women in development and on social
capital and development. Talking about other settings, family is
sometimes referred to as an obstacle to development in Africa
or as an intrinsic part in the development process in China.
However
it seems to clearly avoid the term family and regional
development even though it appears the family dimension in educational
processes, in ownership regimes and in the spatial distribution of their
budgets, on corporate sustainability, in dynamic migration, transport
systems, networks of communication, the environment
of housing and many other dimensions that influence the development of
people and places.
In
Gilles Duranton and Andres Rodriguez-Pose article (Economic
Geography 85(1):23-47) 2009 say that while the literature recognizes the
role of institutions in development there are less common studies on
regional development and the the family. And although that article
reaches some interesting correlations there is a
great space to explore that challenges us.
This
workshop aims, on the one hand, to introduce the family dimension
in the analysis of regional development and, on the other hand, to
include spatial reflections on family and development. There is
definitely a starting point since much has been said about family and
regional development. This meeting is a cross road for prospective
cognitive models that integrate family and regional development, methods
of observation that allow to test ideas and decision support tools that
consider the dynamics and effectiveness of family capital.
Key-note speakers:
Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE
Vice-President of the European Regional Science Association
President-Elect of Regional Science Association International
Professor of Economics at the CATÓLICA-LISBON School of Business
& Economics
President of the Scientific Council of CATÓLICA-LISBON
Thank you for your kind attention and support. We look forward
to meet you at the conference»
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