Topics: The organizers welcome papers from all – academics, students and those working in policy and practice. Papers, which are collaborative, international or multi-disciplinary, are especially welcome.

Specifically, this conference calls for papers in the following interrelated themes:

• Innovative strategies and practices of firms in regional development;
• Labour markets and labour organisations and their continued relevance for regional development;
• Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) and Civil Society Organisations (CSO): facilitators of regional development?
• Regional policies: government and quasi-government initiatives;
• Reassessing EU Regional Policy;
• People in regions: leadership, collective action and regional development;
• Financing regions: global financial crisis and beyond?
• Cooperation across borders; Global environmental change and the future of regional development;
• Theory and research in regional studies;
• Spatial planning in cities and regions;
• Experience economy and experience society. Culture, leisure and experiences in spatial strategies;
• Creative regions in a creative economy;
• Regional policy and development in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe.

Language: English

Fee: 105£- 326£

Deadline: February 14, 2010

Contact: Regional Studies Association, PO Box 2058, Seaford, East Sussex, BN25

Tel.: +44 (0)1323 899 698

Fax: +44 (0)1323 899 798

E-mail: events@rsa-ls.ac.uk

Internet: http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/future