Other Regional Science Sections

European Regional Science Association

The British & Irish Section is afiliated to the the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) is one of three supra-regional groupings of individual national and international sections or associations which together constitute the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). More than a third of the world-wide membership of over 3000 of RSAI are resident in Europe. Each year ERSA holds a major international Congress. The next Congress is to be held from August 27th – 31st in Dortmund, Germany. Also each year ERSA organises a Summer Institute on a selected theme. The next Summer Institute on the theme of “Emerging Market Economies and European Economic Integration” will be held from June 10-16, 2002 in Eksjo, Sweden.

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Visit Dortmund Congress website

Regional Science Association International

The Regional Science Association International was founded in 1954 to promote the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints related to regional science. Its membership is drawn from all parts of the world, and includes people from a wide range of academic disciplines and professions who share an interest in spatial issues. Economists played a major role in the early development of the Association, but in recent years the scope of regional science has broadened. Today geographers, planners, mathematicians and sociologists are also active in the Association. In many parts of the world there are local sections of the Regional Science Association International that organise activities and prepare publications with the general objectives of the Association in mind. These local sections are particularly active within North America, the Pacific Basin, and throughout Europe, including Britain and Ireland. These groupings are reflected in constitutional changes, introduced in 1990, whereby the co-ordination of world-wide activities now rests with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI).

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Other Regional Science Association Web-sites

• European Regional Science Association
• Israeli Section
• Italian Section
• Spanish Section
• Regional Science Association International
• North American Regional Science Council
• Canadian Regional Science Association
• Mid-Continent Regional Science Association
• Southern Regional Science Association
• Western Regional Science Association
• The Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc.
• Indonesion Regional Science Association